reference implementation

English

Noun

reference implementation (plural reference implementations)

1. (computing) A piece of software that implements a specification of requirements and whose main purpose is to help in the creation of other software implementations of the specification by serving as a point of reference rather than being put to directly productive use.

Synonyms

• model implementation
• sample implementation

Hypernyms

• implementation

Translations

Translations

• Finnish: mallitoteutus, viitetoteutus

See also

• reference implementation on Wikipedia.Wikipedia