| Software quality assurance (SQA) - | (Software Engineering) a series of activities that assist an organization in producing high quality software |
| Software Requirements Specification - | (Software Engineering) a deliverable that describes all data, functional and behavioral requirements, all constraints, and all validation requirements for software |
| Software safety - | (Software Engineering) an SQA activity that focuses on the identification and assessment of potential hazard that may have a negative impact on the operation of software |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Test case design - | (Software Engineering) a set of techniques for deriving effective test cases |
| 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 |