| Corrective maintenance - | (Software Engineering) finding and fixing defects that have been reported by users |
| Coupling - | (Software Engineering) an informal measure of the degree to which a software component is connected to other components, to data, and to the external environment |
| CRC (class-responsibility-collaborator) modeling - | (Software Engineering) an object-oriented modeling method that identifies and organizes classes are are relevant to a system |
| Customer - | (Software Engineering) the person or group that has requested the software and will be paying the bill for its development |
| Data design - | (Software Engineering) an activity that translates the data model developed during analysis into implementable data structures |
| Data objects - | (Software Engineering) an input or output that is user visible |
| Data warehouse - | (Software Engineering) a large, independent database that has access to databases that serve many different applications that are required by a business |
| Debugging - | (Software Engineering) the activity associated with finding and correcting an error or defect - a lack of conformance to requirements found in the software after delivery to the customer |
| Defect removal efficiency (DRE) - | (Software Engineering) a nondimension ratio (between 0 and 1) that provides an indication of the degree to which errors are removed from software before it is released to end-users |
| Design - | (Software Engineering) an activity that translates the requirements model into a more detailed model that is the guide to implementation of the software |