top-down design

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top-down design - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  top-down design
  stepwise refinement
  
     <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.
  
     (1996-08-04)