| 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 |
| Task set - | (Software Engineering) a collection fo software engineering tasks that are required to complete an activity or action that is part of a software process framework |
| Technical risks - | (Software Engineering) the set of potential technical problems or occurrences that may cause the project to fail |
| Test plan and procedure - | (Software Engineering) a description of testing strategy and tactics |
| Time-boxing - | (Software Engineering) a project scheduling and control technique that establishes time boundaries for the completion of a specific project task |
| Total quality management - | (Software Engineering) a company commitment to develop a process that achieves high quality product and customer satisfaction |
| Unified process - | (Software Engineering) a "use-case driven, architecture-centric, iterative and incremental" software process that emphasizes the use of UML notation |
| Unit testing - | (Software Engineering) part of the testing strategy that focuses on tests to individual program components |
| User - | (Software Engineering) the person who actually used to software or the product that has software embedded within it |
| User-story - | (Software Engineering) a usage scenario that is used as part of Extreme programming |