The state of documentation practice within corrective maintenance

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article , Conference object 13 Nov 2002Publisher:IEEE Comput. SocJournal:Proceedings IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance. ICSM 2001

Authors: Mira Kajko-Mattsson;

doi: 10.1109/icsm.2001.972748

The state of documentation practice within corrective maintenance

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Consistent, correct and complete documentation is an important vehicle for the maintainer to gain understanding of a software system, to ease the learning and/or relearning processes, and to make the system more maintainable. Former studies have shown that documentation is one of the most neglected process issues within software engineering today. The authors check the current state of documentation practice within corrective maintenance in Sweden.

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Royal Institute of Technology
Sweden
Stockholm University
Sweden

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