A

1. adaptability
2. Agile development methodologies
3. Agile Manifesto
4. asynchronicity. See also parallel processing
5. autoexec.sas
6. automatic macro variable(s)
   1. &SQLRC
   2. &SYSCC
   3. &SYSENV
   4. &SYSERR
   5. &SYSERRORTEXT
   6. &SYSFILRC
   7. &SYSJOBID
   8. &SYSLCKRC
   9. &SYSLIBRC
   10. &SYSPROCESSMODE
   11. &SYSRC
   12. &SYSSCP
   13. &SYSSITE
   14. &SYSVER
   15. &SYSWARNINGTEXT
7. automation
8. availability

B

1. backward compatibility
2. batch processing mode
3. batch file
4. big data
5. big design up front (BDUF)
6. black-box,–
7. boundary value
8. bug. See defect; error; runtime error
9. build-versus-buy
10. business opportunity.See also opportunity cost
11. business value
12. busy-waiting

C

1. checkpoint
2. checksum
3. chicken bus
4. CIA information security triad. See also confidentiality; integrity; availability
5. comment extraction
6. commenting
7. concurrent processing. See parallel processing
8. confidentiality
9. configuration file
10. consistency. See also stability
11. constraint. See also resource
12. control data set. See control table
13. control table
14. cowboy coding
15. CPU usage
16. critical path analysis.See also functional decomposition
17. customer

D

1. data
   1. analytic development
   2. dictionary
   3. governor
   4. integrity. See integrity, data
   5. pedigree
   6. portability
2. default to failure
3. defect
   1. database. See risk register
4. defensive programming
5. definition of done. See also requirement
6. developer. See SAS practitioner
7. disk space usage
8. distributed processing.See also parallel processing
9. divide-and-conquer.See also parallel processing
10. DLCREATEDIR
11. domain knowledge divide
12. driver. See engine

E

1. efficiency
2. efficiency in use
3. encapsulation. See also modularity
4. end-user. See user
5. end-user development
6. engine
7. entity resolution diagram
8. error. See also runtime error
9. error handling. See exception handling
10. event
11. execution efficiency
12. exception
    1. inheritance
    2. reporting
13. exception handling
    1. framework
14. extensibility
15. external software quality

F

1. fail-safe path
2. failure(s)
   1. cascading
   2. log
   3. rate
3. false dependency
4. fault
   1. tolerance
5. FULLSTIMER
6. functionality
7. functional decomposition. See also critical path analysis
8. functional discretion. See also modularity
9. functional requirement. See requirement, functional

G

1. gold-plating
2. graceful termination. See also fail-safe path
3. grue

H

1. happy trail
2. high availability. See availability

I

1. inefficiency elbow
2. inheritance. See exception inheritance
3. input/output (I/O) usage
4. installability
5. integrity
   1. data
   2. software
6. interactive processing mode
7. internal software quality
8. interoperability
9. iron triangle. See also constraint
10. iteration

L

1. lifespan. See software, lifespan
2. log file
3. longevity. See software, lifespan
4. loose coupling. See also modularity

M

1. macro variable
   1. automatic. See automatic macro variable(s)
   2. initialization
   3. perseveration
2. maintainability
3. maintenance
4. Manifesto for Agile Software Development. See Agile Manifesto
5. maximum tolerable downtime (MTD)
6. mean time between failures (MTBF)
7. mean time to failure (MTTF)
8. mean time to recovery (MTTR)
9. memory usage
10. modularity. See also loose coupling; functional discretion; encapsulation
11. monolithic software design
12. multithreading
13. mutex semaphore

N

1. need. See requirement
2. non-functional requirement. See performance requirement

O

1. operations and management (O&M)
2. opportunity cost. See also business opportunity; business value
3. OPTSAVE

P

1. parallel processing
   1. communication
2. parameter
3. performance gap
4. performance requirement
   1. dynamic
   2. static
5. phase-gate
6. portability
7. productivity

Q

1. quality
   1. gap. See performance gap

R

1. readability
2. recoverability
   1. growth
   2. matrix
3. recovery
   1. period
   2. time objective (RTO)
4. refactoring
5. reliability
   1. growth
6. requirement
   1. functional
   2. implied
   3. maintenance
   4. performance. See performance requirement
   5. progressive
7. repurposing. See extensibility
8. resource
9. %RETURN
10. return code.See also automatic macro variable(s)
11. reusability. See also extensibility
12. reuse
    1. catalog
    2. library
13. risk
    1. avoidance
    2. management
    3. mitigation
    4. sharing
    5. register
    6. retention
14. robustness
15. runtime error

S

1. salt
2. SAS, everywhere!
   1. Autocall Macro Facility
   2. Enterprise Guide
   3. Grid Manager
   4. practitioner
   5. University Edition
3. SASROOT
4. scalability
5. scope creep
6. Scrum. See Agile development methodologies
7. security
8. semaphore. See mutex semaphore
9. serialized processing
10. SETINIT
11. signaling
    1. in-band
    2. out-of-band
12. software
    1. decay continuum
    2. design documentation (SDD)
    3. development life cycle (SDLC).See also Agile development methodologies; Waterfall development methodology
    4. integrity. See integrity, software
    5. lifespan
    6. product quality model
    7. speed. See execution efficiency
13. sponsor
14. sprint. See iteration
15. stability
16. stakeholder
17. synchronicity. See also serialized processing
18. SYSPARM
19. SYSTASK
20. systems development life cycle (SDLC).See software, development life cycle

T

1. technical debt
2. test case
3. test data
4. test plan
5. testability
6. testing
   1. acceptance
   2. functional. See also black-box
   3. integration
   4. load
   5. regression
   6. stress
   7. unit. See also white-box
7. threat.See also risk
8. transferability

U

1. user

V

1. vulnerability. See also risk

W

1. Waterfall development methodology
2. white-box