SYSE.11:0.1 - Terms and Distinctions
| Name in this pattern | What it denotes |
|---|---|
| increment | A project-relative name for an identified actual System under one resulting configuration, selected for a receiving use. The same System, the transformations that changed it, and the configuration claims remain separately identified. |
| usable | A bounded claim that the System in this configuration supports one named use under declared conditions and evidence window. State broader claims—such as benefit, assurance, permission, release, reliability, or completeness—separately when the decision needs them. |
| integration | Dated Work that establishes the selected relations needed by the intended System configuration—for example, physical, software, interface, or operating relations. Each relation must independently obtain; a merge, assembly record, installation flag, or interface description can be evidence but is not that relation. |
| Work and transformation | An Agent performs dated Work by a Method. A transformation is the actual change of a continuing subject across time. Work can cause or participate in a transformation, but the two occurrences remain distinct. |
| actual configuration | The SYSE.13-governed structure and state-like claims about one identified actual System over an interval and under a reference scheme. A configuration description is the episteme carrying those claims, not the configured System. |
| modernization | Continuing engineering of an existing System through separately identified bounded changes and resulting configurations. The System’s reidentification rule decides whether it continued or another System began. |
| MVP or continuous engineering | Source-local cues. Recover whether MVP means, for example, a market probe, demonstrator, or usable engineering configuration. For continuous, name the overlapping Work and actual changes intended by the source. |
The performing Agent, dated Work, enacted Method, actual transformation, changed System, description, use observation, assessment, and deciding Agent remain different objects or relations.