____ diagrams represent highly active states that are triggered by completion of the actions of other states; therefore, they focus on internal processing.

The purpose of the ____ is to determine whether the new system will be used as intended.

The most accurate method of economic analysis is the fully quantitative ____, which is a calculation of the difference between the stream of benefits and the stream of costs over the life of the system, discounted by the applicable interest rate.

A(n) ____ is an activity that the system executes in response to a user.

The purpose of the ____ phase is to devise the means to meet all the business requirements detailed in the requirements report.

____ is an umbrella term referring to the general tone of the corporate environment.

____ takes place when an operation switches from using an old system to using a new system.

____ are the functions that the system is expected to fulfill and the features through which it will perform its tasks.

Large ISs that address structured problems, such as accounting and payroll systems and enterprise software applications, are usually conceived, planned, developed, and maintained within a framework called the ____.

A(n) ____ is used to describe the flow of data in a business operation, using only four symbols for these elements: external entities, processes, data stores, and the direction in which data flows.

A ____ can be a spreadsheet showing all the costs incurred by the system and all the benefits that are expected from its operation.

____ diagrams describe interactions of objects and the sequence of their activities.

In a ____, the old system is discarded and the new one takes over the entire business operation for which it was developed.

____ looks at the information needs of an entire organization, or at least of a major division of it.

The first step in systems analysis is ____, which determines whether there is a real need for a system and whether the system as conceived is feasible.

____ comprises three steps: a description of the components and how they will work, construction, and testing.

____ diagrams describe class structure and contents and use the three-part symbol for class: name, attributes and methods.

A(n) ____ is a graphical standard for visualizing, specifying, and documenting software.

In ____ the old system is used along with the new system for a predetermined period of time.

____ treat software development as a series of contacts with users, with the goal of fast development of software to satisfy user requirements, and improving the software shortly after users request modifications.