Exploratory programming

<h2 id="formal-specification-versus-exploratory-programming">Formal specification versus exploratory programming</h2>
<p>For some software development projects, it makes sense to do a <a href="/facts/Requirements_analysis/fHtWUoMs">requirements analysis</a> and a formal <a href="/facts/Specification/xEMUsktp">specification</a>. For other software development projects, it makes sense to let the developers experiment with the technology and let the specification of the software evolve depending upon the exploratory programming.
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<h2 id="similarity-to-breadboarding">Similarity to Breadboarding</h2>
<p>A similar method of exploration is used in electronics development, called <a href="/facts/Breadboarding/fokXRhUn">Breadboarding</a>, in which various combinations can quickly be tried and revised, accepting the tradeoff that the result is definitely temporary in nature.
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<h2 id="see-also">See also</h2>
<ul><li><a href="/facts/Live_coding/Vf9rTNDJ">Live coding</a></li>
<li><a href="/facts/Software_Prototyping/cLqGURoM">Software Prototyping</a></li></ul>
<h2 id="notes">Notes</h2>

<ul><li>Rajib Mall (1 August 2004). <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=K6BloOqIssQC&pg=PA32"><i>Fundamentals of Software Engineering</i></a>. PHI Learning Pvt. Ltd. p. 32. <a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 978-81-203-2445-9.</li></ul>

<h2 id="references">References</h2>

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<li id="fn:1"><p>through  Microsoft Visual Studio <a href="/wiki/Microsoft_Visual_Studio" target="_blank">/wiki/Microsoft_Visual_Studio</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:2"><p>through its JShell read-eval-print loop interpreter introduced in version 9 <a href="/wiki/JShell" target="_blank">/wiki/JShell</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
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Exploratory programming