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Backup

v. To copy software files onto a different media that can be sorted separately from the original files and used to restore the original files, if needed. The act of creating these files. n. The set of copied files.

Baseline

A work product (such as software or documentation) that has been formally reviewed, approved, and delivered and can only be changed through formal change control procedures. See allocated baseline, functional baseline, operational baseline, product baseline .

Benchmark

A standard against which measurements or comparisons can be made.

Bottom-up

The process of designing a system by designing the low-level components first, then integrating them into large subsystems until the complete system is designed; bottom-up testing tests these low-level components first, using software drivers to simulate the higher-level components. See top-down .

Build

An operational version of a software product incorporating a specified subset of the complete system functionality. See version .

Business Process Reengineering

The redesign of an organization, culture, and business processes to achieve significant improvements in costs, time, service, and quality.

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