Systems Analysis and Design, 4th Edition

INDEX

A

A-kind-of (AKO) relationships, 496

Abstract classes, object-oriented systems and, 496

Acceptance tests, 444

Access control requirements, 284

Access speed optimization, 416–421

clustering and, 419

denormalization and, 416–419

indexing and, 420–421

Acknowledgment messages, 326, 328

Action-object order, 323

Active voice, crafting documentation topics and, 450

Activity-based costing, 109

Activity coordination, 435–436

Activity elimination, business process reengineering and, 111–112

Actors

change management process and, 476

sequence diagrams and, 520

use case diagrams and, 506

Adjusted project complexity (APC), 86–87

Adoption motivation, new system transitions and, 474–476

Advanced Encryption Standard (AES), 285

Aesthetics, user interface design and, 307–309

Afferent processes, 366

Aggregation, class diagrams and, 516

Agile development, 53–55

Alpha testing, 443–444

Alternate data flows, data flow diagrams and, 180

Alternative matrix, 260–262

Analysis phase, systems development life cycle, 12–13

Analysis strategy, 13

Application familiarity, technical feasibility and, 22

Application logic, 271

Application service providers (ASPs), 254

Application system, data storage design and, 404–405

Approval committees, 12, 16–17

Architectural components, 270–271

Architecture centric approaches, object-oriented systems and, 499

Architecture design

application logic and, 271

architectural components and, 270–271

availability and reliability requirements and, 281

capacity planning and, 282 ...