| Quality management - | (Software Engineering) a set of software engineering actions that helps ensure that software is built in a way that achieves high quality |
| Regression testing - | (Software Engineering) tests that are conducted repeated to ensure that a change has not introduced side effects |
| Resources - | (Software Engineering) anything that is required to get the project done, people, hardware, materials, information, etc. |
| Reusability - | (Software Engineering) the ability to reuse an already-existing program component in another application |
| Reusable components - | (Software Engineering) configuration items that are reusable |
| Smoke testing - | (Software Engineering) an integration testing approach that constructs and tests software on a daily basis |
| Software process improvement (SPI) - | (Software Engineering) a set of software engineering activities that attempt to improve the state of software engineering practice within an organization |
| Software quality assurance (SQA) - | (Software Engineering) a series of activities that assist an organization in producing high quality software |
| Software Requirements Specification - | (Software Engineering) a deliverable that describes all data, functional and behavioral requirements, all constraints, and all validation requirements for software |
| Software safety - | (Software Engineering) an SQA activity that focuses on the identification and assessment of potential hazard that may have a negative impact on the operation of software |