High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Control tables are tables that control the program flow or play a major part in program control. There are no rigid rules concerning the structure or content of a control table - its only qualifying attribute is its ability to direct program flow in some way through its `execution` by an associated interpreter. The design of such tables is sometimes referred to as table driven design. In some cases, control tables can be specific implementations of finite state machine-based automata-based programming.