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Founded in 1946, the IEEE Computer Society is a professional organization for computing professionals. Based in Washington, DC, it's the largest of IEEE’s 38 societies organized under the IEEE Technical Activities Board. The IEEE Computer Society is dedicated to advancing the theory, practice, and ...
A fault that causes a failure when some particular sequence of program steps is executed.
Industry:Computer; Software
A feature of some programming languages that requires the type of each data item to be declared, precludes the application of operators to inappropriate data types, and prevents the interaction of data items of incompatible types.
Industry:Computer; Software
A feature or characteristic that affects an item's quality. Note: In a hierarchy of quality attributes, higher level attributes may be called quality factors, lower level attributes called quality attributes.
Industry:Computer; Software
A feature or characteristic that affects an item's quality. Note: In a hierarchy of quality attributes, higher level attributes may be called quality factors, lower level attributes called quality attributes.
Industry:Computer; Software
A form used in configuration management to propose revisions to a drawing or list, and, after approval, to notify users that the drawing or list has been, or will be, revised accordingly.
Industry:Computer; Software
A functionally or logically distinct part of a computer software configuration item, typically an aggregate of two or more software units.
Industry:Computer; Software
A graph (sense 2) in which direction is implied in the internode connections.
Industry:Computer; Software
A graph (sense 2) in which direction is implied in the internode connections.
Industry:Computer; Software
A graph (sense 2) in which no direction is implied in the internode connections.
Industry:Computer; Software
A graph of the number of failures in a system or component as a function of time. The name is derived from the usual shape of the graph: a period of decreasing failures (the early-failure period), followed by a relatively steady period (the constantfailure period), followed by a period of increasing failures (the wearout-failure period).
Industry:Computer; Software
