SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING AND REPRESENTING A LINEAGE OF BUSINESS TERMS AND ASSOCIATED BUSINESS RULES WITHIN A SOFTWARE APPLICATION

A system and method for identifying the paths or connections (i.e., term lineage) through which the values of business terms move or flow through a single software application. The term lineage identification system and method identifies the business terms from a data model extracted from source code, and then generates an enriched architecture diagram therefrom. The operator then selects one or more business terms that form part of a term lineage project, and then the system, based on the selection, generates or creates a term lineage diagram so as to discover and view the term lineage of the selected business terms.