| Factoring - | (Software Engineering) a technique that distributes control and work in a top-down manner within a software architecture (used a part of structured analysis) |
| FAST - | (Software Engineering) Facilitated application specification techniques, a structured meeting between developer and customer; intent is to define basic requirementsFormal methods - |
| Formulation - | (Software Engineering) a Web engineering action that identifies business need, describes WebApp objectives, defines major features and functions, and establishes mechanisms for requirements gathering |
| Functional decomposition - | (Software Engineering) a technique used during planning, analysis and design; creates a functional hierarchy for the software |
| GQM (Goal, Question, Metric) paradigm - | (Software Engineering) a technique for defining meaningful metrics for any part of the software process |
| Grammatical parse - | (Software Engineering) a technique that is used during analysis and intended to help isolate basic data objects and functions |
| ISO 9001:2000 - | (Software Engineering) a quality assurance standard that applies to software engineering |
| Joint application development (JAD) - | (Software Engineering) a specific FAST technique |
| Line-of-code metrics - | (Software Engineering) measures of quality or productivity that are normalized using lines of code produced |
| Loop testing - | (Software Engineering) a white box testing technique that exercises program loops |