Article | REF: R8080 V1

Industrial software quality

Author: Élisabeth WALTI

Publication date: June 10, 1998

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2. Support processes

2.1 Documentation process

It may seem unnecessary to point out the importance of project documentation, if only to perpetuate know-how. Unfortunately, at present, the idea of making the software, and then seeing if there's time left for documentation, is still widespread.

The most simplistic theory would have you start a document only when you have all the necessary upstream documents, fixed and complete. This vision rarely corresponds to economic reality. A more realistic approach is to work in the same spirit, but by major project functionalities.

Example

the specification document is awaiting clarification from the customer on particular points of one of the project's subsystems. If other subsystems...

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