INTERCONNECTING DOCUMENTATION - Harnessing the Different Powers of Current Documentation Tools in Software Development

Christian Prause, Julia Kuck, Stefan Apelt, Reinhard Oppermann, Armin B. Cremers

2007

Abstract

Current software documentation tools (like text processors, email, documentation generators, reporting, configuration management, wikis) have different strengths in supporting the software engineering process. But one weakness they all have in common is their inability to combine the advantages of the various techniques. Integrating documentation with diverse origins would enhance the force of expression and compensate individual failings of the different techniques. In this paper, we present a new brand of documentation utilities — exemplified by the Dendrodoc-system — that overcomes current problems with documentation. By processing information at negligible cost that common tools ignore, our system represents an efficient way of improving software documentation.

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Prause C., Kuck J., Apelt S., Oppermann R. and B. Cremers A. (2007). INTERCONNECTING DOCUMENTATION - Harnessing the Different Powers of Current Documentation Tools in Software Development . In Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 2: ICEIS, ISBN 978-972-8865-89-4, pages 63-68. DOI: 10.5220/0002375200630068


in Bibtex Style

@conference{iceis07,
author={Christian Prause and Julia Kuck and Stefan Apelt and Reinhard Oppermann and Armin B. Cremers},
title={INTERCONNECTING DOCUMENTATION - Harnessing the Different Powers of Current Documentation Tools in Software Development},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 2: ICEIS,},
year={2007},
pages={63-68},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002375200630068},
isbn={978-972-8865-89-4},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 2: ICEIS,
TI - INTERCONNECTING DOCUMENTATION - Harnessing the Different Powers of Current Documentation Tools in Software Development
SN - 978-972-8865-89-4
AU - Prause C.
AU - Kuck J.
AU - Apelt S.
AU - Oppermann R.
AU - B. Cremers A.
PY - 2007
SP - 63
EP - 68
DO - 10.5220/0002375200630068