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.

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working set

Computer; Software engineering

In the paging method of storage allocation, the set of pages that are most likely to be resident in main storage at any given point of a program's execution.

comment

Computer; Software engineering

Information embedded within a computer program, job control statements, or a set of data, that provides clarification to human readers but does not affect machine interpretation.

literal

Computer; Software engineering

In a source program, an explicit representation of the value of an item; for example, the word FAIL in the instruction: If x = 0 then print "FAIL".

nanostore

Computer; Software engineering

In a two-level implementation of microprogramming, a secondary control store in which nanoinstructions reside.

nanoinstruction

Computer; Software engineering

In a two-level implementation of microprogramming, an instruction that specifies one or more of the basic operations needed to carry out a microinstruction.

virtual address

Computer; Software engineering

In a virtual storage system, the address assigned to an auxiliary storage location to allow that location to be accessed as though it were part of main storage.