Glossary ====================== .. glossary:: MBSE Model Based Systems Engineering, set of systems engineering methodology promoting the use of abstract representations "models" to describe the expectation and behavior of a system EARS Easy Approach to Requirements Syntax, one of the most popular requirements boilerplates set IDE Integrated Development Environment, software providing general utilities for developers ontology The hierarchical structure of :ref:`reference-part-label` entities in a req specification, representing a structured decomposition of the :term:`SOI` and its environment into named concepts and their attributes. SOI System Of Interest, system to be designed, developed and deployed, can be interfaced with other systems and is subject to an environment LTL Linear Temporal Logic, logic useful to define properties on the timing of a sequence of boolean values https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_temporal_logic FOL First Order Logic, logic introducing existential and universal quantifiers, widely used in maths https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-order_logic ReqIF Requirements Interchange Format, an OMG standard for exchanging requirements data between tools such as DOORS, Polarion, and Jama https://www.omg.org/spec/ReqIF