A software design cycle that includes repeated stages of evaluation of evolving designs, prototypes or systems. The two main kinds of evaluation are formative evaluation at each stage to improve the design and summative evaluation at the end to assess whether the final design is sufficiently good.
Also used in hcistats2e: Chap. 1: pages 9, 11; Chap. 13: page 149
Also known as: iterative software development
Used in glossary entries: formative evaluation, summative evaluation