List of topics in software engineering

From Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium

This is a list of topics that sometimes fall within the field of software engineering. It is also currently a place to brainstorm items which might, or might not, end up in the main Software engineering article. See also the List of software tools for software engineering.

• Capability Maturity Model (CMM) - A set of guidelines from the Software Engineering Institute for assessing project maturity in the software development process, CMM classifies projects into one of five "maturity levels". Many U. S. government contracts awarded for software development require bidding vendors to use CMM guidelines.
• Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) - Also from the SEI, the CMMI updates and supercedes the CMM, which is now defunct.
• Software project risk analysis
• Project schedule estimation
• Software project or process metrics
• Code inspection
• Software project failure analysis
• Software project management
• Software reliability
• Software testing - including sub-topics such as:
  • Software unit testing
  • Software integration testing
  • Software system testing
  • Software Acceptance testing
• Software Verification
• Software Validation
• Software life-cycle models
• Design patterns
• Software development process
• SPICE - Software Process Improvement and Capability dEtermination
• CASE tools and the guy who started the idea
• requirements analysis
• software design
• code generation
• static analysis
• dynamic linking
• ISO 9000 quality assurance process standard
• Rational Unified Process (RUP)