Software Documentation Management Issues and Practices: A Survey

Software Architecture Documentation for Developers: A Survey

An Overview of Industrial Software Documentation Practices

A system documentation process maturity model and assessment procedure were developed and used to assess 91 projects at 41 different companies over a seven year period. During this time the original version evolved into a total of four versions based on feedback from industry and the experience gained from the assessments. This paper reports the overall results obtained from the assessments whi...

Inconsistency Management in Software Engineering: Survey and Open Research Issues

The development of complex software systems is a complex and lengthy activity that involves the participation and collaboration of many stakeholders (e.g. customers, users, analysts, designers, and developers). This results in many partial models of the developing system. These models can be inconsistent with each other since they describe the system from different perspectives and reflect the ...

A Global Survey of Software Development Practices

The worldwide boom in the use of information technology has spurred software development efforts around the globe. Our ongoing research program focuses on three aspects of the global development of software: (1) collection of quantitative data regarding current practice and performance in a variety of countries; (2) determination of the adoption of competing models of software development acros...

Duplicate management in software documentation maintenance

Software today is becoming increasingly more complex and extensive, and its documentation is becoming more and more complicated. During the software life cycle documentation tends to accumulate a lot of duplicates due to copy-pasting: first, some text fragment is copied, possibly multiple times, then each copy is modified, possibly in its own way; thus, different copies of the initial fragment ...