Glossary: D
- Data-Centered Interface
- A user interface designed to support editing objects and documents, but not the use of application software.
- Debugging
- The act of determining the cause of the symptoms of malfunctions detected by testing or by users.
- Defect
- From the end user's point of view, anything that causes dissatisfaction, whether in the statement of requirements or not. A product attribute or function not in the developers' requirements statement or a product requirement that has not been met.
- Defect Analysis
- Use of defects as data for continuous quality improvement. Defect analysis tries to classify defects into categories and identify possible causes in order to direct process improvement efforts.
- Delta Coordinator
- Person in Administrative Computing who works as the liaison between the business areas and the developers to resolve issues related to changes within the system during an upgrade.
- Detail Page
- A transaction page that displays information about an individual record. A record display is only a detail page when it is accessed from a line item display, showing details about one of the line items listed.
- Dialog Box
- A secondary window that appears when a user is working in an application, prompting them to enter options or properties and then close the window.
- Domain Expert
- A person with special knowledge or skills in a business area or a person who is a member of a given group of users and is extremely familiar with their business practices. Also known as subject matter expert (SME).
- Domain Knowledge
- Knowledge about a specific field of interest such as the content area for which a piece of software is being designed, as opposed to programming knowledge or usability expertise. Also known as subject matter expertise.
- Drilldown
- Navigating from higher-level to lower-level application screens, often when the higher-level screens are used for navigation or have summary information and the lower levels have detailed information.
- Drop Box
- The standard method for data providers (MIT departments, labs, and centers, and external vendors) to automatically deliver files created outside of SAP as feeds into MIT's SAP R/3 environments.
- Dropdown Menu
- An item in a menu bar that a user can click to bring down a list of options and commands to select. It is similar to a pull-down menu, except that the user needs to hold the mouse down to keep the menu open.
