top-down design
top-down design
[′täp ¦dau̇n di′zīn] (industrial engineering)
A design methodology that proceeds from the highest level to the lowest and from the general to the particular, and that provides a formal mechanism for breaking complex process designs into functional descriptions, reviewing progress, and allowing modifications.
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top-down design
(programming)(Or "stepwise refinement"). The software design
technique which aims to describe functionality at a very high
level, then partition it repeatedly into more detailed levels
one level at a time until the detail is sufficient to allow
coding. This approach to software design probably originated
at IBM, and grew out of structured programming practices.
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top-down design
A design technique that starts with the highest level of an idea and works its way down to the lowest level of detail. See top-down programming.Copyright © 1981-2019 by The Computer Language Company Inc. All Rights reserved. THIS DEFINITION IS FOR PERSONAL USE ONLY. All other reproduction is strictly prohibited without permission from the publisher.