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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Spiral model

Computer; Software engineering

A model of the software development process in which the constituent activities, typically requirements analysis, preliminary and detailed design, coding, integration, and testing, are performed ...

A non-executable programme statement that affects the assembler or compiler's interpretation of other statements in the program. For example, a statement that identifies a name, specifies what the ...

Multiprocessing

Computer; Software engineering

A mode of operation in which two or more processes are executed concurrently by separate processing units that have access (usually) to a common main storage.

Workload model

Computer; Software engineering

A model used in computer performance evaluation, depicting resource utilisation and performance measures for anticipated or actual workloads in a computer system.

Multitasking

Computer; Software engineering

A mode of operation in which two or more tasks are executed in an interleaved manner.

Test unit

Computer; Software engineering

A set of one or more computer programme modules together with associated control data, (for example, tables), usage procedures, and operating procedures that satisfy the following conditions: (a) All ...