Term

SoDIS™

• Software Development Impact Statement
• A project report produced by SoDIS™ Project Auditor as an output to a SoDIS™ Analysis for a specific project
• A method of addressing project needs and modifying project tasks (or requirements) to address qualitative risks, encompassing social, professional and ethical issues

SoDIS™ Analysis

• An implementation of the SoDIS Process®

SoDIS™ Audit

• Application of a SoDIS™ Analysis to a pre-determined sub-set of a project's tasks

SoDIS™ Inspection Process

• An approach to identifying the areas of a SoDIS™ Analysis for a particular project which are more likely to be of concern and their re-analysis through iterative SoDIS™ Analyses
• A description of elements comprising a SoDIS™ Inspection Process
  • Context scoping
  • SoDIS™ Audit
  • Concerns clustering
  • Cluster guided SoDIS™ Analysis (reaudit)
  • Analysis summary

SoDIS™ Project Auditor

• A decision support tool (software application) for analysing the impact of a software development project throughout its lifecycle
  • Enables undertaking a SoDIS™ Analysis
  • Information is stored in a database to support generation of reports at any time during the life of a project
  • Also includes a Preliminary Analysis to assess if a project is ready to proceed

SoDIS Process®

• A description of the elements of SoDIS™ (3^rd definition) comprising
  • Identification of the tasks (or requirements) comprising a project
  • Identification of the project stakeholders
  • Assessment of the impact of the project tasks (or requirements) on the stakeholders via answering a series of questions and the identification of any concerns and their solutions