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Incremental development and user perception

publish date: 2026/05/29 08:22:41.682881 UTC

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Users often find it difficult to judge progress from design documents alone.

How does incremental development address this issue?

By providing only textual descriptions of the system.

By providing working software that users can see and interact with at early stages.

By focusing solely on internal code quality with no user-facing artifacts.

By eliminating all user involvement until the end.

By providing working software that users can see and interact with at early stages.

Working software gives users a concrete basis for feedback, making progress more tangible than abstract documents.

Software Engineering, Ian Sommerville, 9th edition