The Dissemination of Technical Information in a Software Dvlpmt. Org.
01 January 1988
The dissemination of technical information in a software development organization-software engineering process documents, local computing facility documentation, miscellaneous project memos-is often not organized and controlled adequately to meet the needs of staff. The inadequacies hamper developers, testers, writers, and other project members in finding and using the information they need, lowering productivity. This paper describes common problems in this activity and presents a model of the development and use of documents in these organizations. Requirements for a system solving the problems are given, and LASO, a prototype based on the model and meeting the requirements, is described.