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Walking skeleton

Meaning in software engineering, with examples

nounAdvanced term

In software engineering, walking skeleton means: A minimal working implementation that connects the main architectural parts through a small end-to-end path.

In Turkish: uçtan uca çalışan asgari iskelet

How it is used

Used early to test integration and delivery. It is narrower than a usable first product and more connected than an isolated prototype.

Example sentences

  1. Our walking skeleton accepts one form, saves one record and displays a confirmation.

    The small flow crosses the interface, application logic and storage boundaries.

  2. We deployed the walking skeleton before implementing the full inventory rules.

    A thin functional path can test delivery mechanics before business functionality is complete.

Common collocations

  • build a walking skeleton
  • deploy a walking skeleton
  • architectureThe high-level structure of a software system: its main parts, how they communicate with each other and the key technical decisions behind them.
  • proof of conceptA small, quick version of an idea, built only to show that it can work technically before the team spends time building it properly.

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