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Published in Philip A. Laplante, Comprehensive Dictionary of Electrical Engineering, 2018
solar-thermal-electric conversion soft iron a term used to describe iron that has a low coercivity. Note that soft refers to the magnetic properties of the material, not necessarily the physical properties. soft magnetic material a magnetic material that does not retain its magnetization when the magnetizing field is removed; a material with low coercivity and high permeability. soft real-time See soft real-time system. software development life cycle a way to divide the work that takes place in the development of an application. software engineering systematic development, operation, maintenance, and retirement of software. software evolution the process that adapts the software to changes in the environment where it is used. software interrupt a machine instruction that initiates an interrupt function. Software interrupts are often used for system calls, because they can be executed from anywhere in memory and the processor provides the necessary return address handling. Also known as a supervisor call instruction (SVC) (IBM mainframes) or INT instruction (Intel X86). software reengineering the reverse analysis of an old application to conform to a new methodology. soil electrode an electrical connection to the soil, often in the form of a metal stake driven into the earth. solar-thermal-electric conversion collection of solar energy in thermal form using flat-plate or concentrating collectors and its conversion to electrical form. sion/reception through multiple antenna sectors of the same cell as opposed to multiple base stations. In contrast to soft hand-off, softer hand-off need not involve the mobile telephone system switch in the hand-off process. software design a phase of software development life cycle that maps what the system is supposed to do into how the system will do it in a particular hardware/software configuration.
(AIAM2019) Artificial Intelligence in Software Engineering and inverse: Review
Published in International Journal of Computer Integrated Manufacturing, 2020
Mohammad Shehab, Laith Abualigah, Muath Ibrahim Jarrah, Osama Ahmad Alomari, Mohammad Sh. Daoud
A software process (also known as software methodology) is a set of related activities that leads to the production of the software (Eisty, Thiruvathukal, and Carver 2019). These activities may involve developing software from scratch or modifying an existing system. Any software process must include the following four activities: Software specification (requirements engineering): The major functionalities of the software and the constrains around them are defined.Software design and implementation: The software is designed and programmed.Software verification and validation: The software must conform to specifications and meet the customer needs.Software evolution (software maintenance): The software is modified to meet the customer needs and the changes in market requirements.