Software engineering

Software engineering

The systematic application of scientific principles and disciplines to the development, operation, and maintenance of software to perform prespecified functions with maximum economy and efficiency.

Industry: Computer; Software

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data-structure-oriented design

Computer; Software engineering

A design methodology used for business applications by basing the design on the logical data structures of the program specification. Examples include the Jackson System Design and Warnier-Orr ...

customer

Computer; Software engineering

The person, or persons, for whom the product is intended, and usually (but not necessarily) who decides the requirements. In an engineering project, this is the party that pays for the development ...

scenario

Computer; Software engineering

A description of a specific sequence of actions. In use case scenarios, specific persons or actor instances replace actors, and only one path is taken through the use case’s possible basic and ...

software requirements verification

Computer; Software engineering

The process of ensuring that the software requirements specification complies with the system requirements, conforms to document standards of the requirements phase, and is an adequate basis for the ...

architectural viewpoint

Computer; Software engineering

(1) A specification of the conventions for constructing and using a view. (2) A pattern or template from which to develop individual views by establishing the purposes and audience for a view and the ...

system

Computer; Software engineering

(1) A conceptual entity defined by its boundaries. Examples include companies, divisions, sets of software applications, components, machines, and devices. (2) A set of interlinked units organized to ...

design entity

Computer; Software engineering

A part of a design that is structurally, functionally, or otherwise distinct from other elements or that plays a different role relative to other design entities. Each design entity is separately ...