Research: Quality control in software documentation - Measurement of text comprehensibility

The importance of software documentation and the effects of poor documentation in data processing are often underrated. Little research has been published that evaluates its quality. Software quality, on the other hand, is almost a buzzword. Discussions of software quality measurement often make ref...

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Published inInformation & management Vol. 25; no. 3; p. 133
Main Author Lehner, Franz
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Amsterdam Elsevier Sequoia S.A 01.09.1993
Subjects
Comprehensive
Documentation
Measurement
Methods
Quality control
Readability
Software quality
Studies
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Summary:The importance of software documentation and the effects of poor documentation in data processing are often underrated. Little research has been published that evaluates its quality. Software quality, on the other hand, is almost a buzzword. Discussions of software quality measurement often make reference to software documentation. However, the literature on the subject of software quality assurance has offered little adequate operationalization or usable instrument for quality measurement and quality control in software documentation. In the context of an explorative case study, a presentation is provided of existing comprehensibility measures for texts and an inventory of available tools, a summary of experience with comprehensiblity measures and tools published in the literature, the development of a tool for the computation of readability formulae, and the application of these measurement methods to software documentation.
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ISSN:0378-7206
1872-7530