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Our WhatIs.com Tech Term is iteration

In agile software development, an iteration is a single development cycle, usually measured as one week or two weeks. An iteration may also be defined as the elapsed time between iteration planning sessions.

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The first version of this programming language for databases was developed at IBM in the early 1970s. What’s the secret word?
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CI is a software engineering practice in which isolated changes are immediately tested and reported on when they are added to a larger code base. What does CI stand for?
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What do you call computer object code that is processed by a virtual machine instead of the hardware processor?
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