Software documentation represents a critical resource to the successful functioning of many enterprises. However, because it is static, documentation often fails to meet the needs of the many diverse users who are required to consult it on a regular basis in the course of their daily work. Software documentation is a rich resource that has not been fully exploited. Treatment of software documen...

BACKGROUND Despite increasing research on caregivers' interaction with technology, there has been no attempt to investigate how the introduction of an electronic system in a residential aged care facility (RACF) may affect caregivers' use of their time. OBJECTIVE To assess how caregivers use their time before and after the introduction of an electronic documentation system in an RACF. METHO...

OBJECTIVES The delay between patient discharge and the completion of the final discharge note have prompted hospitals to consider new information technologies. This study compared the relative cost-effectiveness of an automated medical documentation system to the current system in place at a Canadian hospital. There are significant expenditures associated with the choice of medical documentatio...

In order to maintain the consistency between sources and documentation, while at the same time providing documentation at the design level, it is necessary to generate documentation from sources in such a way that it can be integrated with hand-written documentation. In order to simplify the construction of documentation generators, we introduce island grammars, which only de ne those syntactic...

Large scale budget and schedule overruns of software projects have sparked interest in software maintenance. The importance of accurate technical documentation to the maintenance pmcess is presented. A possible solution to the lack of adequate technical documentation is suggested -a partially automated in-line documentation system. This system uses software merrics to determine where comments s...