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Program Development, Testing, and Debugging

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Programming with Sets

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Abstract

The normal stages of a program’s life cycle are:

  1. (i)

    Initial conception, formulation of requirements,

  2. (ii)

    Overall design of a program that will meet these requirements.

  3. (iii)

    Detailed design and coding.

  4. (iv)

    Program review, with rework and extension as needed to clarify, simplify, or improve efficiency.

  5. (v)

    Development of a test plan, testing and debugging, removal of errors, and retest.

  6. (vi)

    Operational use of program.

  7. (vii)

    Enchancement and repair during continuing operational use.

  8. (viii)

    Retirement.

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Schwartz, J.T., Dewar, R.B.K., Schonberg, E., Dubinsky, E. (1986). Program Development, Testing, and Debugging. In: Programming with Sets. Texts and Monographs in Computer Science. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-9575-1_6

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