An individual who interacts with the computer. Although they use the computer all the time, IT professionals, such as programmers, datacenter operators, network administrators and other technical specialists may not think of themselves as users when they perform their jobs. However, they are indeed users when they test the functionality of a system. See system development life cycle.

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