Dummy code

In computer programming, dummy code is inserted in program skeletons to simulate processing. It may involve empty function declarations, or functions that return correct result only for a simple test case where the expected response of the code is known. Program skeletons with dummy code resemble to pseudo code, but allows parsing, compilation and testing of the code, and is sometimes used to describe algorithms. Dummy code makes it possible to use a top-down design approach, where a partially-functional system with high-level structures is designed and coded, and this system is then expanded to fulfill the requirements for the project to a successively higher level of detail.

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