Software-platform
noun
1.
a major piece of software, as an operating system, an operating environment, or a database, under which various smaller application programs can be designed to run.
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- Software practice and experience
publication (SPE) A journal about software. (http://columbus.cs.nott.ac.uk/compsci/spe/). [Publisher? UK?] (1997-12-12)
- Software productivity centre
body (SPC) A non-profit organisation based in Vancouver, BC, Canada with the mandate to assist software developers to improve their software engineering process. (1998-10-13)
- Software publishing corporation
company (SPC) The company that produces Harvard Graphics. (http://spco.com/). (1998-10-13)
- Software reliability
See also formal methods, safety-critical system. (ftp://ftp.sei.cmu.edu/pub/depend-sw). Mailing list: [email protected]. [Summary?]
- Software rot
programming The tendency of software that has not been used in a while to fail; such failure may be semi-humorously ascribed to bit rot. More commonly, “software rot” strikes when a program’s assumptions become out of date. If the design was insufficiently robust, this may cause it to fail in mysterious ways. For example, owing […]