| Project Plan - | (Software Engineering) a description of the management approach for a project |
| Project size - | (Software Engineering) an indication of the overall effort to be expended or the number of people working on the project |
| Project tracking - | (Software Engineering) the activity that enables a manager to understand the status of a project |
| Project control - | (Software Engineering) the control of quality and change |
| Quality - | (Software Engineering) the degree to which a product conforms to both explicit and implicit requirements |
| Quality function deployment (QFD) - | (Software Engineering) a technique that translates the needs of a customer in technical requirements for software by assessing the value of each requirement |
| Refactoring - | (Software Engineering) changing software in a way that improves its internal structure but does not change it external behavior; often conducted iteratively as design evolves into code. |
| Regression testing - | (Software Engineering) tests that are conducted repeated to ensure that a change has not introduced side effects |
| Reliability - | (Software Engineering) a measure of the degree to which software operates reliably over some period of time |
| Requirements analysis - | (Software Engineering) a modeling activity whose objective is to understand what the customer really wants |