Software Documentation: How Much Is Enough?

  • Authors:
  • Lionel C. Briand

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • CSMR '03 Proceedings of the Seventh European Conference on Software Maintenance and Reengineering
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

It is a well-known fact that software documentation is, inpractice, poor and incomplete. Though specification,design, and test documents--among other things--arerequired by standards and capability maturity models(e.g., SEI CMM), such documentation does not exist in acomplete and consistent form in most organizations.When documents are produced, they tend to follow nodefined standard and lack information that is crucial tomake them understandable and usable by developers andmaintainers.