CV-4 identifies the dependencies between capabilities. Dependencies are identified in relation to the context in which they are included and link the capability compositions that are defined within an upper capability. Two associations are required in order to set the source and target of each dependency.

The CapabilityDependencyName property is used to automatically find the name of the dependency that depends on the "container" capability and the capability source and target.

The CV-4 and CV-2 examples are similar as they rely on the same kind of diagram (Capability Structure Diagram). In the CV-4 example, capability dependencies are represented by dashed arrows.