Here’s a small table of many terms I’ll have to be used to in my PhD program, which starts on the next month. It’s just a small part of hundreds of abbreviations we software developers have to deal with on our daily work. Please comment down if you have suggestions to add to this table. I’m sure every person can add at least 30 itens to this table:
| a.k.a. | Also known as |
| API | Application Programming Interface |
| a.k.a. | Also known as |
| API | Application Programming Interface |
| BDD | Behavior Driven Development |
| BPEL | Business Process Execution Language |
| BPEL4SWBPMI | Business Process Execution Language for Semantic WeBusiness Process Management Initiative |
| BPMN | Business Process Modeling Notation |
| BPSS | Business Process Specification Schema |
| CA | Consortium Agreement |
| CBDI | Component Based Development and Integration |
| CBDI-SAE | CBDI Service Architecture and Engineering |
| DAML | DARPA Agent Markup Language |
| DAML-S | DARPA Agent Markup Language for Services |
| DCV&V | Decentralized Collaborative Validation and Verification |
| DDD | Domain Driven Design |
| DL | Deliverable Leader |
| DoDAF | Department of Defense Architecture Framework |
| DOW /DoW | Description of Work |
| DSB | Distributed ESB |
| EAI | Enterprise Application Integration |
| EDA | Event-Driven Architecture |
| EFSM | Extended Finite State Machine |
| ESB | Enterprise Service Bus |
| ETP | European Technology Platform |
| FI | Future Internet |
| FIA | Future Internet Assembly |
| FTP | File Transfer Protocol |
| GRL | Goal Representation Language |
| HTTP | HyperText Transfer Protocol |
| IaaS | Infrastructure as a Service |
| IAC | Industrial Advisory Committee |
| IDE | Integrated Development Environment |
| IDRE | Integrated Development and Runtime Environment |
| IT | Information Technology |
| JBI | Java Business Integration |
| MBT | Model-Based Testing |
| MDD | Model Driven Development |
| MODAF | Ministry of Defence Architecture Framework |
| MST | Management support team |
| M2M | Model-to-Model |
| M2T | Model-to-Text |
| OMG | Object Management Group |
| OSGi | Open Services Gateway Initiative |
| OSS | Open Source Software |
| OWL | Ontology Web Language |
| OWL-S | Ontology Web Language for Services |
| PaaS | Platform as a Service |
| PL | Project Leader |
| PMT | Project Management Committee |
| PO | Project Officer |
| PTC | Project Technical Committee |
| QoS | Quality of Service |
| R&D | Research & Development |
| RDF | Resource Description Framework |
| REST | REpresentational State Transfer |
| RTD | Research and Technology Development |
| SaaS | Software as a Service |
| S-APL | Semantic-Agent Programming Language |
| SAWSDL | Semantically Annotated Web Service Description Language |
| SBPM | Semantic Business Process Management |
| SL | Scientific Leader |
| SLA | Service Level Agreement |
| SLS | Service Level Specification |
| SOA | Service-Oriented Architecture |
| SoaML | Service-oriented architecture Modeling Language |
| SOAP | Simple Object Access Protocol |
| SOC | Service-Oriented Computing |
| SoTA /SOTA | State of The Art |
| SQL | Structured Query Language |
| TCC | Test Collaboration Contracts |
| TDD | Test-Driven Development / Design |
| TSC | Testing Service Contract |
| UDDI | Universal Description Discovery and Integration |
| ULS | Ultra-Large-Scale |
| ULS-FI | Ultra-Large-Scale Future Internet |
| UML | Unified Modeling Language |
| UMM | UN/CEFACT Modeling Methodology |
| UPDM | Unified Profile for DoDAF and MODAF |
| V&V | Verification & Validation |
| W3C | World Wide Web Consortium |
| WP | Work Package |
| WPL | Work Package Leader |
CLI => Command-line interface