| Make-buy decision - | (Software Engineering) determining whether software should be built internally, acquired, contracted or built from reusable components |
| Measurement - | (Software Engineering) collecting quantitative data about the software or the software engineering processMetrics - |
| Navigation analysis - | (Software Engineering) a Web engineering action that establishes how a user will navigate between various elements (e.g., content, functions) of a WebApp |
| OCL (Object Constraint Language) - | (Software Engineering) a supplement to UML, this formal language allows a software engineer to construct unambiguous statements about the characteristics of various design model elements |
| Process framework - | (Software Engineering) a relatively small set of fundamental software engineering activities that define a software process |
| Project size - | (Software Engineering) an indication of the overall effort to be expended or the number of people working on the project |
| Requirements analysis - | (Software Engineering) a modeling activity whose objective is to understand what the customer really wants |
| Software Requirements Specification - | (Software Engineering) a deliverable that describes all data, functional and behavioral requirements, all constraints, and all validation requirements for software |
| Stepwise refinement - | (Software Engineering) a technique for accomplishing functional decomposition or procedural design (also called partitioning) |
| System engineering - | (Software Engineering) focuses on the analysis and design of all elements of a complete product, service, or technology for the transformation of information or control |