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Outsourcing & offshoring
The process of contracting a business function to a third party, or to a supplier outside the home nation of the original business.
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debugging
Outsourcing & offshoring; Business process outsourcing (BPO)
The process of locating and fixing or bypassing bugs (errors) in computer program code or the engineering of a hardware device.
pay for inclusion (PFI)
Outsourcing & offshoring; Business process outsourcing (BPO)
Abbreviation for Pay For Inclusion. Many search engines offer a PFI program to assure frequent spidering / indexing of a site (or page). PFI does not guarantee that a site will ...
pseudocode
Outsourcing & offshoring; Business process outsourcing (BPO)
A detailed yet readable description of what a computer program or algorithm must do, expressed in a formally-styled natural language rather than in a programming language.
investment credit
Outsourcing & offshoring; Business process outsourcing (BPO)
A credit against tax available for investment in a limited range of business property. The general investment credit was repealed in 1986, but this type of credit has been ...
job posting
Outsourcing & offshoring; Business process outsourcing (BPO)
Document used to recruit candidates for a vacant position; e.g., job duties and qualifications, candidate screening methods and the terms and conditions of employment.
smoke testing
Outsourcing & offshoring; Business process outsourcing (BPO)
Non-exhaustive software testing, ascertaining that the most crucial functions of a program work, but not bothering with finer details.
gateway page
Outsourcing & offshoring; Business process outsourcing (BPO)
Also called a doorway page. A gateway page exists solely for the purpose of driving traffic to another page. They are usually designed and optimized to target one specific ...
