| Adaptive maintenance - | (Software Engineering) activity associate with changing an application to make it conform to changes in its external environment |
| Aesthetic design - | (Software Engineering) a Web engineering action that focuses on the aesthetics (e.g., the artistic elements) of a WebApp (often encompasses graphic design) |
| Agile development (also referred to as agile process model) - | (Software Engineering) an adapted version of software engineering that emphasizes customer communication, incremental software delivery, informal methods and work products, and highly motivated teams. |
| Analysis - | (Software Engineering) a set of activities that attempt to understand and model customer needs and constraintsAnalysis methods - |
| Architecture - | (Software Engineering) the overall structure of software components, the data and/or content that components manipulate, and the relationships between them |
| Aspect-oriented development - | (Software Engineering) a development approach that emphasizes "concerns" (also called "aspectual requirements" that incorporate features, functions and information content) that cut across multiple system functions |
| Automated estimation tools - | (Software Engineering) tools that help in estimating project cost or effort |
| Automatic code generation - | (Software Engineering) tools that generate source code from a representation of software that is not source code |
| Baseline - | (Software Engineering) a point at which some deliverable produced during the software engineering process is put under formal change contro |
| Basis path testing - | (Software Engineering) a white box test case design technique that used the algorithmic flow of the program to design tests |