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A type of prototyping in which emphasis is placed on developing prototypes early in the development process to permit early feedback and analysis in support of the development process.
Industry:Computer; Software
A user-defined portion of a job, explicitly identified by a job control statement. A job consists of one or more job steps.
Industry:Computer; Software
A user-defined unit of work that is to be accomplished by a computer. For example, the compilation, loading, and execution of a computer program.
Industry:Computer; Software
A value assigned to a parameter by a called module for access by the calling module.
Industry:Computer; Software
A variable that can be accessed by only one module or set of nested modules in a computer program.
Industry:Computer; Software
A variable that can be accessed by two or more non-nested modules of a computer program without being explicitly passed as a parameter between the modules.
Industry:Computer; Software
A variable that is given a specific value to adapt a program to a given installation site or to given conditions in its operational environment; for example, the variable Installation-Site-Latitude.
Industry:Computer; Software
A variable that is set to a prescribed state, often "true" or "false," based on the results of a process or the occurrence of a specified condition.
Industry:Computer; Software
A variable used in a software module to represent data or program elements that are to be passed to the module by a calling module.
Industry:Computer; Software
