About
In computer science, tree traversal (also known as tree search) 1) refers to the process of visiting (examining and/or updating) each node in a tree data structure, exactly once, in a systematic way.
Tree traversal is a graph traversal.
Tree traversal is also called:
- walking a tree,
- or visiting a tree.
Traversal means stopping at every node to do something.
Order
How a tree is traversed is called the order.
For example, see Tree - Order