Software development is the process used to create software. Programming and maintaining the source code is the central step of this process, but it also...

Agile software development is an umbrella term for approaches to developing software that reflect the values and principles agreed upon by The Agile Alliance...

In software engineering, a software development process or software development life cycle (SDLC) is a process of planning and managing software development...

software engineering, a project fork happens when developers take a copy of source code from one software package and start independent development on...

Scrum is an agile team collaboration framework commonly used in software development and other industries. Scrum prescribes for teams to break work into...

A software development kit (SDK) is a collection of software development tools in one installable package. They facilitate the creation of applications...

In software development, when software has been forked or uses a chain of libraries/dependencies, upstream refers to an issue that occurs in software related...

Lean software development is a translation of lean manufacturing principles and practices to the software development domain. Adapted from the Toyota Production...

substance, pollutant, or contaminant. Brownfield development adds a number of improvements to conventional software engineering practices. These traditionally...

features and applications, targeting new platforms, managing the software development lifecycle (design, implementation, testing, and deployment), leading...

specifications, and testing suites. The history of software is closely tied to the development of digital computers in the mid-20th century. Early programs...

one of many kinds of tangible by-products produced during the development of software. Some artifacts (e.g., use cases, class diagrams, and other Unified...

An integrated development environment (IDE) is a software application that provides comprehensive facilities for software development. An IDE normally...

of development, when the software is still being designed and built. Alpha testing is the first phase of formal testing, during which the software is...

Open-source software development (OSSD) is the process by which open-source software, or similar software whose source code is publicly available, is...

testing for easily reproduced edge cases. The term is used in agile software development approaches like Scrum or Extreme Programming. A spike in a sprint...

on runtime assertion checking in software development by Lori A. Clarke, David S. Rosenblum in: ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes 31(3):25-37, 2006...

In software development, the V-model represents a development process that may be considered an extension of the waterfall model and is an example of the...

production environment or repository in the context of software development, including web development, automation, revision control, configuration management...

philosophies in software development and engineering. It also contains programming paradigms, software development methodologies, software development processes...

Software engineering is an engineering approach to software development. A practitioner, called a software engineer, applies the engineering design process...

A programming tool or software development tool is a computer program that software developers use to create, debug, maintain, or otherwise support other...

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

Android software development is the process by which applications are created for devices running the Android operating system. Google states that "Android...

Nintendo Software Planning & Development Division, commonly abbreviated as Nintendo SPD, was a Japanese research, planning and development division owned...

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

Adaptive software development (ASD) is a software development process that grew out of the work by Jim Highsmith and Sam Bayer on rapid application development...

Model-driven engineering (MDE) is a software development methodology that focuses on creating and exploiting domain models, which are conceptual models...

In software development, downstream refers to a direction away from the original authors or maintainers of software that is distributed as source code...

ability to examine the code facilitates public trust in the software. Open-source software development can bring in diverse perspectives beyond those of a single...