10 Facts About Software documentation

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Software documentation is written text or illustration that accompanies computer software or is embedded in the source code.

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Requirements documentation is the description of what a particular software does or shall do.

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Need for requirements documentation is typically related to the complexity of the product, the impact of the product, and the life expectancy of the software.

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Architecture documentation is a special type of design document.

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Various how-to and overview documentation guides are commonly found specific to the software application or software product being documented by API writers.

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Typically, the user Software documentation describes each feature of the program, and assists the user in realizing these features.

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User documentation is considered to constitute a contract specifying what the software will do.

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User Software documentation can be produced in a variety of online and print formats.

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Common complaint among users regarding software documentation is that only one of these three approaches was taken to the near-exclusion of the other two.

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Survey among software engineering experts revealed that documentation is by no means considered unnecessary in agile development.

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