| Classes - a basic construct in object - | (Software Engineering) oriented methods that categorizes elements of the problem |
| Classic life cycle - | (Software Engineering) a linear, sequential approach to process modeling |
| Cohesion - | (Software Engineering) an informal measure of the degree to which a software component implements a single, focused function |
| Component reuse - | (Software Engineering) the ability to reuse a portion of a model, source code, test case, etc. |
| Corrective maintenance - | (Software Engineering) finding and fixing defects that have been reported by users |
| CRC (class-responsibility-collaborator) modeling - | (Software Engineering) an object-oriented modeling method that identifies and organizes classes are are relevant to a system |
| Cyclomatic complexity - | (Software Engineering) a measure of the logical complexity of an algorithm, used in white-box testing |
| Data dictionary - | (Software Engineering) a database that contains definitions of all data items defined during analysis; see also, Requirements dictionary |
| Data flow diagram (DFD) - | (Software Engineering) a modeling notation that represents a functional decomposition of a system |
| Data objects - | (Software Engineering) an input or output that is user visible |