Software prototyping
Valdis A. Berzins · Encyclopedia of Computer Science · 2003
A software prototype is an executable model of a proposed software system that accurately reflects chosen aspects of the system, such as display formats, the values computed, or response times. Software prototyping is an approach to software development that uses prototypes to help both the developers and their customers visualize the proposed system and predict its properties in an iterative process as shown in Fig. 1.