software patches
1Software Asset Management — (SAM) is a business practice that involves managing and optimizing the purchase, deployment, maintenance, utilization, and disposal of software applications within an organization. According to the Information Technology Infrastructure Library… …
2Software regression — A software regression is a software bug which makes a feature stop functioning as intended after a certain event (for example, a system upgrade, system patching or a change to daylight saving time). A software performance regression is a… …
3Software — [ˈsɒf(t)wɛː] ist ein Sammelbegriff für die Gesamtheit ausführbarer Programme und die zugehörigen Daten.[1] Sie dient dazu, Aufgaben zu erledigen, indem sie von einem Prozessor ausgewertet wird und so softwaregesteuerte Geräte, die einen Teil der… …
4Software cracking — is the modification of software to remove or disable features which are considered undesirable by the person cracking the software, usually related to protection methods: copy protection, trial/demo version, serial number, hardware key, date… …
5Software quality assurance — (SQA) consists of a means of monitoring the software engineering processes and methods used to ensure quality. It does this by means of audits of the quality management system under which the software system is created. These audits are backed by …
6Software as a service — (SaaS, typically pronounced sass ) is a model of software deployment where an application is hosted as a service provided to customers across the Internet. By eliminating the need to install and run the application on the customer s own computer …
7Software blacklist — Software blacklisting is a tool used by manufacturers of software and music on CD and DVD to prevent copying.Essentially the software on the disc will audit the user s computer for certain types of virtual CD and CD authoring software, or for… …
8Software brittleness — The term software brittleness refers to the increased difficulty in fixing older software that may appear reliable, but fails badly when presented with unusual data or altered in a seemingly minor way. The term is derived from analogies to… …
9Software maintainer — In free and open source software, a software maintainer is usually one or more people who build source code into a binary package for distribution, commit patches, or organize code in an source repository (SVN or CVS). [cite web|… …
10Software synthesizer — A software synthesizer, also known as a softsynth is a computer program or plug in for digital audio generation. Computer software which can create sounds or music is not new, but advances in processing speed are allowing softsynths to accomplish …
