Title :
Incremental redocumentation with hypertext
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci., Wayne State Univ., Detroit, MI, USA
Abstract :
Redocumentation is the recovery and recording of software comprehension. Since software comprehension is the most expensive part of software maintenance, redocumentation is the key to software maintainability. The paper describes the process and the tools of incremental redocumentation where the comprehension of the software is recorded in hypertext, in the style of the World Wide Web. The paper describes the tools which support redocumentation, and gives several examples
Keywords :
hypermedia; multimedia computing; software maintenance; software tools; system documentation; systems re-engineering; World Wide Web; hypertext; incremental redocumentation; redocumentation tools; software comprehension recording; software comprehension recovery; software maintainability; software maintenance; Code standards; Computer science; Documentation; HTML; Java; Packaging; Programming profession; Software maintenance; Software tools; Web sites;
Conference_Titel :
Software Maintenance and Reengineering, 1997. EUROMICRO 97., First Euromicro Conference on
Conference_Location :
Berlin
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-7892-5
DOI :
10.1109/CSMR.1997.583009
