Authors:
Christian Prause
1
;
Julia Kuck
2
;
Stefan Apelt
1
;
Reinhard Oppermann
1
and
Armin B. Cremers
2
Affiliations:
1
Fraunhofer Institut für Angewandte Informationstechnik, Germany
;
2
Institute of Computer Science III, University of Bonn, Germany
Keyword(s):
Software Documentation, Software Engineering Process, CASE, Collaboration, Information Retrieval, Hypermedia, Document Management, Knowledge Management.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Biomedical Engineering
;
Data Engineering
;
Enterprise Information Systems
;
Health Information Systems
;
Information Systems Analysis and Specification
;
Knowledge Management
;
Ontologies and the Semantic Web
;
Society, e-Business and e-Government
;
Software Engineering
;
Web Information Systems and Technologies
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.