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SOFTWARE ENGINEERING GLOSSARY
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Welcome to the Oobeya Glossary, your go-to resource for the terms and concepts that shape modern software engineering. Explore clear definitions for the methodologies, metrics, and frameworks teams use to improve delivery, quality, and reliability.
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Agentic AI
Agentic AI refers to AI systems that can plan, decide, and carry out multi-step tasks with some level of autonomy.
Agentic Development
Agentic Development describes software development workflows where AI agents can complete parts of coding, review, or delivery work with partial autonomy.
Agile
Agile is an iterative approach to product and software delivery that emphasizes customer feedback, collaboration, and adaptation to change.
AI Code Completion
AI Code Completion is the use of machine learning models to suggest the next tokens, lines, or code blocks while a developer is writing code.
AI Code Generation
AI Code Generation is the use of AI models to create code from prompts, instructions, context, or existing source files.
AI Code Review
AI Code Review is the use of AI systems to analyze pull requests, code changes, or diffs and provide feedback before merge or release.
Alpha Testing
Alpha testing is an early internal testing phase in which a product is evaluated before wider beta testing or general release.
Amazon Q Developer
Amazon Q Developer is AWS’s AI assistant for coding, cloud development tasks, troubleshooting, and developer workflows.
API Rate Limiting
API rate limiting controls how many requests a client can make in a given time window to protect reliability, fairness, and security.
Application Insights
Application Insights is a Microsoft application performance monitoring service used to collect telemetry about application health, usage, and reliability.
Azure Boards
Azure Boards is Microsoft’s work tracking tool for managing backlogs, user stories, bugs, sprints, and Kanban boards.
Azure DevOps
Azure DevOps is Microsoft’s software development platform for source control, work tracking, pipelines, test management, and package management.
Azure Pipelines
Azure Pipelines is Microsoft’s CI/CD service for building, testing, and deploying applications through automated workflows.
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