| Documentation - | (Software Engineering) descriptive information |
| Effort - | (Software Engineering) the work-time product (e.g., person-days) associated with a project |
| Enhancement - | (Software Engineering) an extension of functional or performance requirements |
| Errors - | (Software Engineering) a lack of conformance found before software is delivered to the customer |
| Estimation - | (Software Engineering) a project planning activity that attempts to project effort and cost for a software project |
| FAST - | (Software Engineering) Facilitated application specification techniques, a structured meeting between developer and customer; intent is to define basic requirementsFormal methods - |
| Formal technical reviews - | (Software Engineering) a structured meeting conducted by software engineering with the intent of uncovering errors in some deliverable or work product |
| Formulation - | (Software Engineering) a Web engineering action that identifies business need, describes WebApp objectives, defines major features and functions, and establishes mechanisms for requirements gathering |
| Functional decomposition - | (Software Engineering) a technique used during planning, analysis and design; creates a functional hierarchy for the software |
| GQM (Goal, Question, Metric) paradigm - | (Software Engineering) a technique for defining meaningful metrics for any part of the software process |