Utility Software Program

AKA: Software Tool.
Example(s):
- a Build Automation Tool, such as git and maven.
- a Data Transformation Tool, such as awk.
- a Data Analysis Tool, such as ... pandas?
- a Data Mining Tool, such as scikit-learn and C4.5.
- a Web Crawling Tool, such as curl.
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Counter-Example(s):
- a Software Library.
- an Application Software.
- a Software Package.
- a Development Environment.
See: System Software, Computer Hardware, Operating System, Data (Computing).

References

(Wikipedia, 2013) ⇒ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/utility_software Retrieved:2013-12-2.
- Utility software is system software designed to help analyze, configure, optimize or maintain a computer.
  Utility software usually focuses on how the computer infrastructure (including the computer hardware, operating system, application software and data storage) operates. Due to this focus, utilities are often rather technical and targeted at people with an advanced level of computer knowledge - in contrast to application software, which allows users to do things like creating text documents, playing video games, listening to music or viewing websites.