domain analysis

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domain analysis - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  Domain Analysis
  
     <systems analysis> 1. Determining the operations, data
     objects, properties and abstractions appropriate for
     designing solutions to problems in a given domain.
  
     2. The domain engineering activity in which domain knowledge
     is studied and formalised as a domain definition and a domain
     specification.  A software reuse approach that involves
     combining software components, subsystems, etc., into a single
     application system.
  
     3. The process of identifying, collecting organising,
     analysing and representing a domain model and software
     architecture from the study of existing systems, underlying
     theory, emerging technology and development histories within
     the domain of interest.
  
     4. The analysis of systems within a domain to discover
     commonalities and differences among them.
  
     (1997-12-26)