Software consists of computer programs that instruct the execution of a computer. Software also includes design documents and specifications. The history...

Proprietary software is software that grants its creator, publisher, or other rightsholder or rightsholder partner a legal monopoly by modern copyright...

Free software, libre software, libreware sometimes known as freedom-respecting software is computer software distributed under terms that allow users...

Software engineering is a branch of both computer science and engineering focused on designing, developing, testing, and maintaining software applications...

Software testing is the act of checking whether software satisfies expectations. Software testing can provide objective, independent information about...

Application software is any computer program that is intended for end-user use – not operating, administering or programming the computer. An application...

The software release life cycle is the process of developing, testing, and distributing a software product (e.g., an operating system). It typically consists...

id Software LLC (/ɪd/) is an American video game developer based in Richardson, Texas. It was founded on February 1, 1991, by four members of the computer...

Blender is a free and open-source 3D computer graphics software tool set that runs on Windows, macOS, BSD, Haiku, IRIX and Linux. It is used for creating...

Open-source software (OSS) is computer software that is released under a license in which the copyright holder grants users the rights to use, study,...

virtualization to deliver software in packages called containers. The service has both free and premium tiers. The software that hosts the containers...

Software architecture is the set of structures needed to reason about a software system and the discipline of creating such structures and systems. Each...

Software categories are groups of software. They allow software to be understood in terms of those categories, instead of the particularities of each...

A software license is a legal instrument governing the use or redistribution of software. Since the 1970s, software copyright has been recognized in the...

Software verification is a discipline of software engineering, programming languages, and theory of computation whose goal is to assure that software...

Wiki software (also known as a wiki engine or a wiki application) is collaborative software that runs a wiki, which allows the users to create and collaboratively...

Standalone software may refer to: Computer programs that can work offline, i.e. does not necessarily require network connection to function Software that is...

with skill in computer programming. The professional titles software developer and software engineer are used for jobs that require a programmer. Sometimes...

ə-DOH-bee), formerly Adobe Systems Incorporated, is an American computer software company based in San Jose, California. It offers a wide range of programs...

Magisk is free and open-source software used to root Android devices, developed by John Wu. Magisk supports devices running Android 6.0 or higher. Magisk...

Software crisis is a term used in the early days of computing science for the difficulty of writing useful and efficient computer programs in the required...

recognize and penalize, as indirect infringers, the service providers and software distributors who are said to facilitate and encourage individual acts of...

A software wizard or setup assistant or multi-step form is a user interface that leads a user through a sequence of small steps, such as a dialog box to...

Malware (a portmanteau of malicious software) is any software intentionally designed to cause disruption to a computer, server, client, or computer network...

between computer programs. It is a type of software interface, offering a service to other pieces of software. A document or standard that describes how...

Software versioning is the process of assigning either unique version names or unique version numbers to unique states of computer software. Within a...

FromSoftware, Inc. is a Japanese video game developer and publisher. Founded by Naotoshi Zin on November 1, 1986 as a business software developer, the...

Software as a service (SaaS /sæs/) is a cloud computing service model where the provider offers use of application software to a client and manages all...

Software development is the process of designing and implementing a software solution to satisfy a user. The process is more encompassing than programming...

open-source software (FOSS) is software available under a license that grants users the right to use, modify, and distribute the software – modified or...