Stress Testing

Software Engineering

The systematic application of engineering principles to the design, development, testing, and maintenance of software.

Agile Methodology

An iterative approach to software development emphasising flexibility, collaboration, and rapid delivery of working software.

Scrum

An agile framework using fixed-length iterations called sprints for incremental product delivery with defined roles and ceremonies.

Kanban

A visual workflow management method that limits work in progress and optimises the flow of tasks through a system.

Waterfall Model

A sequential software development methodology where each phase must be completed before the next begins.

Technical Architecture

The design and structure of a software system's technical components and their relationships.

Design Pattern

A reusable solution to a commonly occurring problem within a given context in software design.

SOLID Principles

Five principles of object-oriented design promoting maintainable, flexible, and understandable code.

Domain-Driven Design

A software design approach focusing on modelling the business domain and aligning code with business logic.

Clean Architecture

A software design philosophy separating concerns into layers with dependencies pointing inward toward business rules.

Technical Documentation

Written materials describing the architecture, design, APIs, and usage of software systems.

Database Design

The process of defining the structure, storage, and retrieval of data in a database system.

A deployment strategy using two identical production environments to achieve zero-downtime releases.

A deployment strategy where changes are gradually rolled out to a small subset of users before full deployment.

A software practice where code changes can be released to production at any time through automated pipelines.

A development practice where code changes are automatically built and tested when merged to a shared repository.

Testing individual components or functions in isolation to verify they produce the expected output.

A distributed version control system for tracking changes in source code during software development.

A development practice where failing tests are written before the code that makes them pass.

A tool that automates the process of installing, upgrading, configuring, and removing software packages.