An object of the present invention is to provide a program development support device capable of easily developing a program for using a handy terminal despite the fact that a user has no knowledge of programming, a program development support method, and a computer program executable in the program development support device. A communication route of data transmission reception between an information reading device and a host computer which are capable of performing a data communication to each other is stored. A selection of master data is received. A selection of the first field as a retrieval processing object from the plurality of fields in the master data is received. A selection of the second field, in which retrieval result data to be displayed is stored, from a plurality of fields corresponding with the records which correspond with a comparison condition based on the retrieval information is received.