Continuous testing is an important aspect of achieving quality during rapid software development. By making the user documentation for a software product into part of its testing machinery, we can leverage each to benefit the other. The documentation itself can be automatically tested and kept in a state of synchronization with the software. Conversely, if the documentation can be machine inter...

INTRODUCTION The quality of nursing documentation is still a challenge in the nursing profession and, thus, in the health care industry. One major quality improvement program is clinical governance, whose mission is to continuously improve the quality of patient care and overcome service quality problems. The aim of this study was to identify whether clinical governance improves the quality of ...

In enterprises, business process models are used for capturing as-is business processes. During process enactment correct documentation is important to ensure quality, to support compliance analysis, and to allow for correct accounting. Missing documentation of performed activities can be directly translated into lost income, if accounting is based on documentation. Still, many processes are ma...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide a reconsideration of Michael Buckland’s important question, “What is a document?”, analysing the point and purpose of definitions of “document” and “documentation”. Design/methodology/approach – Two philosophical notions of the point of definitions are contrasted: John Stuart Mill’s concept of a “real” definition, purporting to specify the natur...

Documentation related which identifies the documentations that represent the same realworld entity, is an important step for data integration. A discovery shopping search engine tool is designed in order to remove the reproductions of documentation obtained from the query outcomes of numerous web databases and as well as to help shoppers make ideal buying decisions. To address the problem of do...

Relative quantification using RT-qPCR is a widely used method for transcription profiling. Transcript levels of target genes in fish after experimental infection is often reported without documentation of stably transcribed reference genes. We present results demonstrating that transcription of typically used reference genes in Atlantic salmon is not stable during experimental infection with sa...

background: the aim of present study was to determine the quality of nursing documents in medical-surgical wards and factors affected this quality. methods: in this descriptive study the quality of nurses' documents in medical-surgical wards of teaching hospitals related to tabriz university of medical sciences was assessed. for data gathering, four checklists assessed four parts of nursing doc...

A conceptual model for a software maintenance method named COMFORM (Configuration Management Formalization for Maintenance) is presented. COMFORM provides guidelines and procedures for carrying out the maintenance process, while establishing a systematic approach for the support of existing software systems. Incremental documentation, the process of building up the software documentation while ...

OBJECTIVE To establish quantitative characteristics of lifestyle counseling documentation associated with improved glycemic control in patients with diabetes. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS We retrospectively studied 10,870 hyperglycemic (HbA1c ≥7.0% [53 mmol/mol]) adults with diabetes followed at primary care practices affiliated with two academic hospitals between 2000 and 2010. Documentation ...