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Labeled Boxes: One in The Center Representing The System and Around It Multiple Boxes For Relationship: Labeled Lines Between The Entities and System

A System Context Diagram (SCD) shows a system and its interactions with external actors at the highest level, representing important entities that interface with the system. SCDs are used early in projects to define the system scope and understand the context in which it will operate. They include the system depicted as a central box connected to labeled boxes for external actors it interfaces with through labeled relationship lines.

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Labeled Boxes: One in The Center Representing The System and Around It Multiple Boxes For Relationship: Labeled Lines Between The Entities and System

A System Context Diagram (SCD) shows a system and its interactions with external actors at the highest level, representing important entities that interface with the system. SCDs are used early in projects to define the system scope and understand the context in which it will operate. They include the system depicted as a central box connected to labeled boxes for external actors it interfaces with through labeled relationship lines.

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System Context Diagram (SCD) in software engineering and systems engineering is


a diagram that represents the actors outside a system that could interact with that system. This
diagram is the highest level view of a system, similar to Block diagram, showing a,
possibly software-based, system as a whole and its inputs and outputs from/to external factors.

System Context Diagrams are diagrams used in systems design to represent the more important
external actors that interact with the system at hand.

System context diagrams are related to Data Flow Diagram, and show the interactions between a
system and other actors with which the system is designed to interface. System context diagrams
can be helpful in understanding the context which the system will be part of.

Context diagrams are used early in a project to get agreement on the scope under investigation.
Context diagrams are typically included in a requirements document. These diagrams must be
read by all project stakeholders and thus should be written in plain language, so the stakeholders
can understand items within the document.

Context diagrams can be developed with the use of two types of building blocks:

 labeled boxes: one in the center representing the system and around it multiple boxes for
each external actor
 Relationship: labeled lines between the entities and system

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