Quality - |
(Software Engineering) the degree to which a product conforms to both explicit and implicit requirements |
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 |
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 |
Refactoring - |
(Software Engineering) changing software in a way that improves its internal structure but does not change it external behavior; often conducted iteratively as design evolves into code. |
Reliability - |
(Software Engineering) a measure of the degree to which software operates reliably over some period of time |
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. |