| Business risks - | (Software Engineering) the set of potential business problems or occurrences that may cause the project to fail |
| Cause-effect graphing - | (Software Engineering) a black-box testing method |
| Component (also called Software component) - | (Software Engineering) a named, modular building block for computer software |
| Debugging - | (Software Engineering) the activity associated with finding and correcting an error or defect - a lack of conformance to requirements found in the software after delivery to the customer |
| Design walkthrough - | (Software Engineering) a formal technical review of the design |
| Effort - | (Software Engineering) the work-time product (e.g., person-days) associated with a project |
| Equivalence partitioning - | (Software Engineering) a black-box testing method |
| Errors - | (Software Engineering) a lack of conformance found before software is delivered to the customer |
| Factoring - | (Software Engineering) a technique that distributes control and work in a top-down manner within a software architecture (used a part of structured analysis) |
| Formal technical reviews - | (Software Engineering) a structured meeting conducted by software engineering with the intent of uncovering errors in some deliverable or work product |