development environment

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development environment - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  development environment
  
     <programming, tool> An integrated suite of tools to aid the
     development of software in a particular language or for
     a particular application.  Usually, this consists of a
     compiler and editor and may also include one or more of a
     debugger, profiler, and source code manager.
  
     See also: IDE.
  
     (1999-08-01)