What is a spike in software engineering?

It's a short experiment to find out if a particular technique will work, or how complex it is going to be so that you can do a proper time estimate for the real thing. read more

Sometimes when solving problems in software engineering, you might have multiple solutions and need to do experiments to decide which solution to implement based on the results. So you will do small experiments (usually it's in short time) and you call that as a spike. read more

Spike (software development) A spike is a product-testing method that is used to determine how much work will be required to solve or work around a software issue. Typically, a 'spike test' involves gathering additional information or testing for easily reproduced edge-cases. read more