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Software engineering

a specified set of operations a software component exposes, independent of implementation, so callers depend only on that contract.

A specified set of operations that a software component exposes to the rest of a program, named and typed independently of how they are implemented, so that callers depend on the contract and not on the hidden code behind it. Parnas's 1972 On the criteria to be used in decomposing systems into modules made this the basis of information hiding: each module reveals an interface and conceals the design decisions most likely to change. The referent is an abstract boundary inside software, a promise about behaviour that lets modules be built and replaced separately, and it is not a screen a person operates, a phase boundary in matter, or a social contact zone.[1]

Unit
A specified contract of operations a component exposes, apart from its implementation
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Described by the signatures, types, and behavioural specification of the exposed operations, and by the coupling between modules

Development sociology

a point where actors with different lifeworlds, interests, and knowledge meet, negotiate, and sometimes clash, as in development projects.

A critical point of intersection between social worlds, where actors with different lifeworlds, interests, and bodies of knowledge meet, negotiate, and sometimes clash, for example between a development agency and the people it intends to help. Long's 2001 Development Sociology: Actor Perspectives developed the social interface as a unit of analysis for these encounters, where meaning and power are contested rather than simply transferred. The referent is a zone of social discontinuity between groups or knowledge systems, studied through the actors who meet there, and it is not a computer screen, a software contract, or a boundary between phases of matter.[2]

Unit
A point of intersection between social worlds, described by the actors and knowledge that meet there
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Not applicable
Measured by
Studied ethnographically through the encounters, discourses, and power struggles among the actors at the interface

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References

  1. Parnas, D. L. (1972). On the criteria to be used in decomposing systems into modules. Communications of the ACM, 15(12), 1053–1058. https://doi.org/10.1145/361598.361623
  2. Long, N. (2001). Development sociology: Actor perspectives. London, England: Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-23536-5

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