| 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 |
| Reverse engineering - | (Software Engineering) trying to develop design models or an understanding of design using program code as a starting point |
| Security testing - | (Software Engineering) testing tasks that probe the vulnerability of both client-side and server-side software |
| Selective testing - | (Software Engineering) testing only a selected set of program paths and data inputs |
| 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 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 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 |