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 |
Prototyping - |
(Software Engineering) the creation of a mock-up of an application |
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 |
Quality management - |
(Software Engineering) a set of software engineering actions that helps ensure that software is built in a way that achieves high quality |
Quality metrics - |
(Software Engineering) measures of quality |
Re-engineering - |
(Software Engineering) a series of activities that transform legacy systems (with poor maintainability) into software that exhibits high quality |
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. |