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Glossary
Architectural design phase The period during which the high-level over-
view of the system is developed.
Black-box testing A testing methodology where the test cases are mostly
derived from the requirements statements without consideration of the
actual code content.
Cohesion An attribute of a unit of high- or detail-level design that identi-
fies the degree to which the elements within that unit belong or are related
together.
Coupling An attribute that addresses the degree of interaction and inter-
dependence between two software units.
Data slice All the data tokens in a slice that will affect the value of a spe-
cific variable ...

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