Systematic determination of the extent to which an entity meets its specified criteria. [ ISO/IEC 12207 ]
Evaluation [ ISO/IEC 15414 ]: An action that assesses the value of something.
- Example: The action by which an ODP system assigns a relative status to some thing according to estimation by the system. Value can be considered in terms of usefulness, importance, preference, acceptability, etc.; the evaluated target may be a credit rating, a system state, a potential behavior. [ ISO/IEC/IEEE 24765 ]
