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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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

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...

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

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

A computing platform, digital platform, or software platform is the infrastructure on which software is executed. While the individual components of a...

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

Software cracking (known as "breaking" mostly in the 1980s) is an act of removing copy protection from a software. Copy protection can be removed by applying...

Hindu dubbed Azhagi as a tool that "stand[s] out" among various similar software "emerg[ing] nearly every other day". Since year 2000, Azhagi has provided...

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

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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...

directed the Software Engineering Division at the MIT Instrumentation Laboratory, where she led the development of the on-board flight software for NASA's...

Productivity software (also called personal productivity software or office productivity software) is application software used for producing information...

Software requirements for a system are the description of what the system should do, the service or services that it provides and the constraints on its...