| Software - | (Software Engineering) programs, documents and data |
| 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 problem report - | (Software Engineering) a report of a defect |
| Software process improvement (SPI) - | (Software Engineering) a set of software engineering activities that attempt to improve the state of software engineering practice within an organization |
| Software Requirements Specification - | (Software Engineering) a deliverable that describes all data, functional and behavioral requirements, all constraints, and all validation requirements for 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 |
| Spiral model - | (Software Engineering) an evolutionary software engineering paradigm |
| Stakeholders - | (Software Engineering) any person of group that has a stake in the successful completion of a software project |
| State transition diagram (STD) - | (Software Engineering) a notation for behavioral modeling |