Category:Software & software engineering

Topics dealing with various elements of software and its design

A 1988 Rom podule with early software - Image by Chris Whytehead

Subcategories

• Capability maturity model - or CMM, a set of procedures created by Carnegie Mellon used to insure continual improvement throughout the stages of product development
• Computer aided software engineering - or CASE, a set of tools and methods used to ensure high-quality software products
• Formal verification - the proving or disproving of the correctness of the algorthims underlying a property using the formal methods of mathematics
• Optical character recognition software - or OCR software, software that attempts to translate scanned written or typed images into readable, machine-encoded text
• Programming environments - the conditions and layout which allow the programming of computer code
• Reasoning about programs
• Runtime - the time during which a computer program is executing
• Software agents - a piece of software that acts for a user or another program as an agent without the direct intervention of the user
• Software architecture - the set of structures needed to reason about a software system, including elements of the software and relations between them
• Software debugging - the process of identifying and reducing the number of bugs or flaws in a software program
• Software maintenance - the modification of a software product after delivery to correct bugs or faults and to optimize performance
• Software packages - used in object-oriented programming to name a group of related classes in a particular program
• Software performance - the reliability, speed, and efficiency of a software program
• Software quality - a term embodying two distinct aspects of software, its functional quality (or fitness for its purpose) and its structural quality (or its internal cohesion and operability)
• Software reusability - the likelihood that a segment of source code can be used again to add new functions with minimal modification
• Software safety - the safety of a software program against either unauthorized use or computer viruses
• Software systems - often synonymous with "software" itself, the part of a computer system that is not hardware
• Software tools - also known as programming tools, a program or application that allows software developers to create or maintain programs
• System software - software designed to run a computer's hardware and to provide a platform for operating other applications and programs