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Incremental means adding, iterative means reworking
- lutusp 13y agoWhat? Those definitions are simply false. Incremental steps are small increases or decreases in a quantity, iterative steps are cyclical repetitions of a pattern. Iterative certainly does not mean "reworking". That's fiction. http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/incremental http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/incremental Quote: "of, relating to, being, or occurring in especially small increments <incremental additions> <incremental change>" http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/iteration http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/iteration Quote: "a procedure in which repetition of a sequence of operations yields results successively closer to a desired result." > This is my 5th or 8th attempt to describe the difference between incremental and iterative development. Have you considered simply looking up the generally accepted meaning of the terms?