| Procedural design - | (Software Engineering) creates representations of algorithmic detail within a module |
| Process framework - | (Software Engineering) a relatively small set of fundamental software engineering activities that define a software process |
| Project database - | (Software Engineering) the place where configuration items are kept |
| Project risks - | (Software Engineering) the set of potential project problems or occurrences that may cause the project to fail |
| Quality function deployment (QFD) - | (Software Engineering) a technique that translates the needs of a customer in technical requirements for software by assessing the value of each requirement |
| Quality management - | (Software Engineering) a set of software engineering actions that helps ensure that software is built in a way that achieves high 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 |
| Reusability - | (Software Engineering) the ability to reuse an already-existing program component in another application |
| Reverse engineering - | (Software Engineering) trying to develop design models or an understanding of design using program code as a starting point |