Practical Guide to Software Quality Management (Artech House Computing Library)
| ANSI | American National Standards Institute |
| CA | configuration accounting |
| CC | configuration control |
| CCB | CCB |
| CDR | critical design review |
| CE | critical error |
| CI | configuration item |
| CID | configuration identification |
| CM | configuration management |
| CMM | Capability Maturity Model |
| CMMI | Capability Maturity Model Integrated |
| CMP | configuration management plan |
| COA | cost of achievement |
| COF | cost of failure |
| COQ | cost of quality |
| DoD | Department of Defense |
| EIA | Electronic Industries Association |
| FA | functional audit |
| FnPt | function point |
| I | involved |
| IEC | International Electrotechnical Commission |
| IEEE | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers |
| ISO | International Organization for Standards |
| JTC1 | Joint Technical Committee 1 |
| KLOC | thousands of lines of code |
| LCL | lower control limit |
| LOC | lines of code |
| NIST | National Institute of Standards and Technology |
| P | primary |
| PA | physical audit |
| PDR | preliminary design review |
| PIR | postimplementation review |
| RTM | requirements traceability matrix |
| SC | standards committee |
| SDLC | software development life cycle |
| SDP | software development plan |
| SEI | Software Engineering Institute |
| SG | standards group |
| SLC | software life cycle |
| SQS | software quality system |
| SQSP | software quality system plan |
| SRR | software requirements review |
| Std | standard (IEEE designation) |
| STR | software trouble report |
| TTM | test traceability matrix |
| TRR | test readiness review |
| UCL | upper control limit |
| UDF | unit development folder |