Perspectives on Software Documentation Inquiries and Innovations

Two unmistakable trends in software documentation emerge from the academic literature of the last few years. The first trend is toward usability as the standard for all software documentation. The second trend is toward online presentation as the primary & preferred medium for software documentation. As we shall see, this medium allows a number of new interface elements to fall under the broad umbrella of software documentation. In fact, the evidence of these trends tends to suggest that we need to broaden our definition of software documentation. It is toward this broadening that this book inclines. This book is designed to address the randomness of the literature on software documentation. Perspectives on Software Documentation contains a variety of perspectives, all tied together by the shared need to make software products more usable.Barker, Thomas T. is the author of 'Perspectives on Software Documentation Inquiries and Innovations' with ISBN 9780895030696 and ISBN 0895030691.