| 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 |
| Requirements analysis - | (Software Engineering) a modeling activity whose objective is to understand what the customer really wants |
| Requirements engineering - | (Software Engineering) the activities required to elicit, elaborate, negotiate, specify, and validate system or software requirements |
| Resources - | (Software Engineering) anything that is required to get the project done, people, hardware, materials, information, etc. |
| Risk analysis - | (Software Engineering) a techniques for identifying and evaluating risks |
| Six sigma - | (Software Engineering) a widely used strategy for statistical quality assurance |
| 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 |