A study of documentation for software architecture

• Published in: Empirical software engineering : an international journal Vol. 28; no. 5; p. 122
• Main Authors: Ernst, Neil A., Robillard, Martin P.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York Springer US 01.09.2023; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Architecture; Compilers; Computer architecture; Computer Science; Documentation; Documents; Format; Interpreters; Narratives; Programming Languages; Questions; Software; Software Engineering/Programming and Operating Systems; Source code; Program comprehension; Developer onboarding; Software architecture; Software documentation; Documentation style

Documentation is an important mechanism for disseminating software architecture knowledge. Software project teams can employ vastly different formats for documenting software architecture, from unstructured narratives to standardized documents. We explored to what extent this documentation format ma...