A systematic approach to creating and maintaining software documentation

Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing

Volumn Part F128723, Issue , 1996, Pages 201-208

  Powell, Allison L ^a   French, James C ^a   Knight, John C ^a  

^a University of Virginia   (United States)

Author keywords

Documentation; Information retrieval; Software engineering

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; SYSTEM PROGRAM DOCUMENTATION;

SOFTWARE DOCUMENTATION;

SEARCH ENGINES;

EID: 0038516421     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/331119.331176     Document Type: Conference Paper

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