Modular documentation: a software development tool

  • Authors:
  • Roy E. Anderson

  • Affiliations:
  • Hewlett Packard, Fort Collins, Colorado

  • Venue:
  • AFIPS '81 Proceedings of the May 4-7, 1981, national computer conference
  • Year:
  • 1981

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Abstract

This paper presents a scheme for documenting the design and implementation of a large software system. The scheme is presented in terms of a family of documents based on the decomposition of any system into specific levels of abstraction for the purpose of software development. It facilitates the use of structured design techniques, provides tangible objects for organizing manpower resources on the basis of the system's structure, gives management meaningful milestones with which to measure development progress, and results in a fully documented system when the implementation phase is complete.