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. |
Regression testing - |
(Software Engineering) tests that are conducted repeated to ensure that a change has not introduced side effects |
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. |
Reusability - |
(Software Engineering) the ability to reuse an already-existing program component in another application |
Reusable components - |
(Software Engineering) configuration items that are reusable |
Reverse engineering - |
(Software Engineering) trying to develop design models or an understanding of design using program code as a starting point |