| 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 quality assurance (SQA) - | (Software Engineering) a series of activities that assist an organization in producing high quality software |
| Stakeholders - | (Software Engineering) any person of group that has a stake in the successful completion of a software project |
| Statistical quality assurance - | (Software Engineering) techniques for process improvement that are based on measurements of the product and the process |
| Stepwise refinement - | (Software Engineering) a technique for accomplishing functional decomposition or procedural design (also called partitioning) |
| Structured programming - | (Software Engineering) a design method that limited design constructs to only three basic forms and constrains program flow for better quality |