An organization has an integrated development environment
(IDE), where the program libraries reside on the server, but
modification/development and testing are done from PC
workstations. Which of the following would be a strength of
an integrated development environment?
A. Controls the proliferation of multiple versions of programs
B. Expands the programming resources and aids available
C. Increases program and processing integrity
D. Prevents valid changes from being overwritten by other
changes
Answer / guest
Answer: B
A strength of an integrated development environment is that
it expands the programming resources and aids available. The
other choices are IDE weaknesses.
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