Development versus assessment
Although an assessment process does produce output, which ultimately is perhaps just a decision (that is, does the data, database, or statistical data model under observation meet the acceptable limits of performance, based on the objectives?), development implies building.
Development can also mean improving by expanding, enlarging, or refining. This means that (or at least it implies that) whatever one is developing may never be completely done. In fact, development and assessment do go hand in hand.
An industry-proven practice recommendation to develop anything is as follows:
- Build (or develop)
- Test
- Assess
- Repeat
When developing a relational data model, one might utilize a create SQL statement, something like the following code:
mysql> CREATE TABLE test (a INT NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT, -> PRIMARY KEY (a), KEY(b)) -> ENGINE=MyISAM SELECT b,c FROM test2;
Dissecting the preceding code, we can see that the outcome is that a table object test is generated. Perhaps...
