Stub

A skeletal or special-purpose implementation of a software module, used to develop or test a module that calls or is otherwise dependent on it. [ ISO/IEC/IEEE 24765 ]

Other Definitions

Stub [ ISO/IEC/IEEE 24765 ]: A computer program statement substituting for the body of a software module that is or will be defined elsewhere.

Stub [ ISO/IEC/IEEE 24765 ]: Scaffolding code written for the purpose of exercising higher-level code before the lower-level routines that will ultimately be used are available.

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