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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.

Stress Testing

Testing a system beyond normal operational capacity to determine its breaking point and failure behaviour.

Technical Documentation

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

The ability of a system to handle multiple tasks simultaneously by interleaving their execution.

A database structured to recognise relations among stored items, organised in tables with rows and columns.

A systematic examination of source code by developers other than the author to identify bugs and improve quality.

A technique that maps objects in code to relational database tables, abstracting direct SQL interaction.

Automatic memory management that reclaims memory occupied by objects no longer referenced by the program.

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

Storing frequently accessed data in a fast-access storage layer to reduce latency and improve performance.

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

HTTP

Hypertext Transfer Protocol — the application-layer protocol for transmitting hypermedia documents on the World Wide Web.