| Change management - | (Software Engineering) a set of software engineering actions that helps ensure that changes are properly identified, controlled, and reportedChange report - |
| Clusters - | (Software Engineering) a collection of program components (modules) that is tested as a group |
| Component (also called Software component) - | (Software Engineering) a named, modular building block for computer software |
| Configuration - | (Software Engineering) the collection of programs, documents and data that must be controlled when changes are to be madeConfiguration audit - |
| Configuration items - | (Software Engineering) the individual pieces of programs, documents and data that are controlled using SCM |
| CRC (class-responsibility-collaborator) modeling - | (Software Engineering) an object-oriented modeling method that identifies and organizes classes are are relevant to a system |
| Customer - | (Software Engineering) the person or group that has requested the software and will be paying the bill for its development |
| Data dictionary - | (Software Engineering) a database that contains definitions of all data items defined during analysis; see also, Requirements dictionary |
| Interface design - | (Software Engineering) a software engineering action that establishes the structure and workflow for a user interface; follows three "golden rules:" place the user in control, reduce the user's memory leoad, make the interface consistent. |
| Load testing - | (Software Engineering) a testing task that determines how software (often a WebApp) will respond to various loading conditions |