Questions tagged [software]
Questions related to software development.
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What could you call a library of medical images and other data relating to bones or skeletons?
I'm looking for a concise term for a library or collection including medical images of bones. More precisely it contains multimodal (e.g. X-ray and CT-scan) medical images of subsections of a skeleton ...
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How to convey a relation between a parameter and two things that it controls in opposite directions?
In writing the user manual for a piece of software, I'm trying to communicate the relationship between a numerical control, which I'll call frob, and two properties, which I'll call foo and bar.
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Terminology to distinguish between 'the user of some code (ie. developers)' and 'the end users of the application that that code creates'
The context here is for documentation for frontend tooling, libraries, etc.
When writing such documentation we often refer to a 'user' as in 'When the user clicks X button, such and such occurs'. The ...
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Can we say "It is lagging hard" when software does not work well at all?
Can we say "It is lagging hard" when some software doesn't work well at all?
I know other synonyms like:
"It's glitchy"
"It's buggy"
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An adjective for incertitude
Context: Without the tool X, writing programs in Java is a hard and time-consuming task with lots of incertitude.
Here the incertitude means that programmers are not sure if their programs are correct,...
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Can we say "It works rough" if software is not working properly?
Can we say "It works rough" if a demoed piece of software is in active development and may contain bugs thus still not working properly?
I heard something like that from my PM (native ...
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Quotation mark use (one word) in software engineering paper
I'm currently researching the origins of a well known software engineering model - the waterfall model. The paper most cited for the model didn't invent the model, but rather said that it doesnt work ...
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"Software rot" or is there a better term to convey the idea of a slow deterioration of software quality over time?
I just found this term https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_rot:
Software rot, also known as bit rot, code rot, software erosion,
software decay, or software entropy is either a slow deterioration ...
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How do I describe a hierarchical relationship between software objects?
I'm trying to express a particular relationship between two software resources. The relationship is such that one of the resources is the "main" or "original" one and is required ...
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Using 'all' without a noun or pronoun [closed]
As far as I understand, 'all' should always be followed by a noun or pronoun, so the sentence 'I want to buy all' is incorrect. However, in computer games and mobile apps, I often see phrases like '...
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What is the name for a hardware equivalent of a Widget?
In graphical UI development, we have buttons, knobs, and sliders and the hypernym would be widgets.
In computer hardware, we have buttons, knobs, and sliders and the hypernym would be ... for some ...
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Adjective for something using plug-ins
I'm looking for an adjective (preferably) that describes a software component as being capable of using plug-ins, or better yet, as only performing its function if it has been loaded with plugins. So, ...
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Opposite of "failover"
Our software "knows" to migrate itself to spare hardware in case the main hardware is damaged. The process of such a migration is called failover.
When the main hardware is repaired the ...
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One word for upgrade and downgrade (or similar)?
As a software developer, I am working on a project with service tiers, such that a user may opt to switch their current subscription to a tier above or below it. A single module handles both "upgrade" ...
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A better word for transforming a software project from start to finish
I ___ a (software) project from concept to implementation.
"___" here refers to being solely responsible for all phases of the SDLC process for this project.
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