A gardener wants a software developer to create an app to manage their customer bookings and billing. The gardener provides the following text description of their requirements:
"I run a lawn-mowing business in my village. Most of my clients have large lawns and they pay me depending on the overall area of the lawn. I prefer working on Tuesdays because the local cafe has a discount on coffee then. If a client has flowerbeds in the middle of their lawn, I don't charge extra for steering around them. I need a system to record how much I should charge each household – fortunately, everyone lives on different streets so I can identify them easily. I charge £5 per 50 square meters of lawn."
The developer needs to remove all the unnecessary detail (such as the preference for working on Tuesdays or the coffee discount) from the request to focus on the key requirements.
What is the correct name for this process?
Algorithmic thinking
Decomposition
Abstraction
Evaluation
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