Practice IT and programming vocabulary with this exercise. The terms here reflect the language of software development — used in team meetings, documentation, and technical communications.
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Choose the correct response to complete each sentence.
1. We're looking for three programmers to help us develop our web-based __________________.
Correct answer: applications.
2. You have to test the program to ensure that it works ____________________.
Correct answer: as expected.
3. Many programmers use libraries of (modifiable) code instead of __________________ from scratch.
Correct answer: coding.
4. Proprietary software is software that can be used ____________________ by the company that develops it.
Correct answer: exclusively.
5. Boris is going to be helping us to implement various software sub-__________________.
Correct answer: components.
6. He's really good at __________________. (meaning: finding a problem and fixing it)
Correct answer: troubleshooting.
7. Do you have any experience integrating internal software solutions into ____________________ application software?
Correct answer: third-party.
8. Programmers with _________________ or licenses are not necessarily better coders.
Correct answer: certifications.
9. How good are you _________________ stored procedures?
Correct answer: at writing.
10. What's another word for "testing"?
Correct answer: debugging.
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📚 Important Words to Know API (Application Programming Interface) — a set of rules allowing different software applications to communicate and share data with each other cloud computing — the delivery of computing services including storage, servers, and software over the internet on demand agile methodology — a project management approach based on iterative development, collaboration, and flexibility to change DevOps — a set of practices combining software development and IT operations to shorten development cycles and improve reliability cybersecurity — the practice of protecting computer systems, networks, and data from digital attacks and unauthorized access bandwidth — the maximum rate of data transfer across a network, typically measured in megabits per second latency — the delay between a user's action and the corresponding response from a system or network scalability — the ability of a system or network to handle an increasing amount of work or expand its capacity firewall — a network security system that monitors and controls incoming and outgoing traffic based on defined rules encryption — the process of encoding data so that only authorized parties can read it