Software Engineering Benefits
Decision tables, especially when coupled with the use of a domain-specific language, allow developers and policy experts to work from the same information, the decision tables themselves.
Tools to render nested if statements from traditional programming languages into decision tables can also be used as a debugging tool.
Decision tables have proven to be easier to understand and review than code, and have been used extensively and successfully to produce specifications for complex systems.
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