| Risk Management and Monitoring Plan (RMMP) - | (Software Engineering) a plan for mitigating, monitoring and managing risks |
| Scheduling - | (Software Engineering) the activity that lays out a timeline for work to be conducted on a project |
| Security - | (Software Engineering) the ability of software to operate in a manner that is secure from internal or external attack |
| Side effects - | (Software Engineering) errors that occur because of changes |
| Six sigma - | (Software Engineering) a widely used strategy for statistical quality assurance |
| Software engineering - | (Software Engineering) a discipline that encompasses the process associated with software development, the methods used to analyze, design and test computer software, the management techniques associated with the control and monitoring of software projects and the tools used to support process, methods, and techniques. |
| Software metrics - | (Software Engineering) quantitative measures of the process or the product |
| Software problem report - | (Software Engineering) a report of a defect |
| 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 |