Glossary
Our glossary page provides definitions of key terms and concepts in the fields of coding, testing and AI.
- Acceptance criteria
- Agent Skills
- Agentic code review
- AGENTS.md file
- AI adoption metrics
- AI code governance
- AI code review benchmarks
- AI code review in CI/CD pipelines
- AI coding agents
- AI gateway
- AI SDLC (AI software development lifecycle)
- AI test automation
- AI-generated code validation
- Air-gapped code review
- Architecture decision record (ADR)
- Architecture rules
- Audit trail in code review
- Automated code review
- Azure DevOps code review
- C# and .NET code review
- Change failure rate
- Claude Code code review
- Claude Code plugins
- Cline code review
- Code graph
- Code quality
- Code smell
- CODEOWNERS file
- Codex code review
- Coding agent rules
- Coding standards enforcement
- Cognitive debt
- Copilot instructions file
- Coupling in software engineering
- Cross-agent code review
- Cross-repo context for coding agents
- Cursor code review
- Custom rules for code review
- SAML SSO
- SAST
- Secure code review
- Secure SDLC
- Security policy enforcement in code review
- Self-managed GitLab code review
- Separation of duties
- Shift left
- Single-tenant vs multi-tenant code review
- SOC 2 and ISO compliance for code review
- Software regression
- Spec-driven development
- Stacked pull requests (PRs)
- Static analysis vs AI code review
- Structured logging
- Swift code review