| Smoke testing - | (Software Engineering) an integration testing approach that constructs and tests software on a daily basis |
| Software engineering - | (Software Engineering) a discipline that encompasses the process associated with software development, the methods used to analyze, design and test computer software, the management techniques associated with the control and monitoring of software projects and the tools used to support process, methods, and techniques. |
| Software metrics - | (Software Engineering) quantitative measures of the process or the product |
| Software quality assurance (SQA) - | (Software Engineering) a series of activities that assist an organization in producing high quality software |
| Software safety - | (Software Engineering) an SQA activity that focuses on the identification and assessment of potential hazard that may have a negative impact on the operation of software |
| Stakeholders - | (Software Engineering) any person of group that has a stake in the successful completion of a software project |
| Statistical quality assurance - | (Software Engineering) techniques for process improvement that are based on measurements of the product and the process |
| Stress testing - | (Software Engineering) a testing task that determines how software responds when it is forced to meet or exceed operational limits |
| Structured programming - | (Software Engineering) a design method that limited design constructs to only three basic forms and constrains program flow for better quality |
| Task analysis - | (Software Engineering) a software engineering action that is conducted as part of user interface design; intended to better understand how a user is to interact with a system |