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Software development. Software documentation is written text or illustration that accompanies computer software or is embedded in the source code. The documentation either explains how the software operates or how to use it, and may mean different things to people in different roles. Documentation is an important part of software engineering.
Classes of technical documentation may include: patents. specifications of item or of components/materials. data sheets of item or of components/materials. test methods. manufacturing standards. system requirements. system architecture. system design documents and data including those necessary for the system development, testing, manufacturing ...
User manuals and user guides for most non-trivial PC and browser software applications are book-like documents with contents similar to the above list. They may be distributed either in print or electronically. Some documents have a more fluid structure with many internal links. The Google Earth User Guide is an example of this format.
A style guide, or style manual, is a set of standards for the writing and design of documents, either for general use or for a specific publication, organization or field. The implementation of a style guide provides uniformity in style and formatting within a document and across multiple documents.
A software design description (a.k.a. software design document or SDD; just design document; also Software Design Specification) is a representation of a software design that is to be used for recording design information, addressing various design concerns, and communicating that information to the design’s stakeholders. [1]
Documentation generator. A documentation generator is a programming tool that generates software documentation intended for programmers ( API documentation) or end users ( end-user guide), or both, from a set of source code files, and in some cases, binary files. Some generators, such as Javadoc, can use special comments to drive the generation.
An interactive electronic technical manual ( IETM) is a portal to manage technical documentation. IETMs compress volumes of text into just CD-ROMs or online pages which may include sound and video, and allow readers to locate needed information far more rapidly than in paper manuals. IETMs came into widespread use in the 1990s as huge technical ...
IEEE 829-2008, also known as the 829 Standard for Software and System Test Documentation, was an IEEEstandard that specified the form of a set of documents for use in eight defined stages of software testingand system testing, each stage potentially producing its own separate type of document. The standard specified the format of these ...