Software Engineering Terms - K

KEY FIELD

A field used to identify a record or group of records by its value. See also primary key

and foreign key.

KEY PROCESS AREA

A software engineering process identified by the Software Engineering Institute Capability

Maturity Model that is an essential to an organization's ability to develop consistently

high-quality software products.

KILOBYTE (KB)

One thousand bytes (actually 1024 storage positions). Used as a measure of storage

capacity.

KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT

The process of systematically managing and leveraging the stores of knowledge in an

organization. This knowledge is generally stored as sets of documents or database

records.