Do we Really Need to Write Documentation for a System? - CASE Tool Add-ons: Generator+Editor for a Precise Documentation

Maria Spichkova, Xiuna Zhu, Dongyue Mou

2013

Abstract

One of the common problems of system development projects is that the system documentation is often outdated and does not describe the latest version of the system. The situation is even more complicated if we are speaking not about a natural language description of the system, but about its formal specification. In this paper we discuss how the problem could be solved by updating the documentation automatically, by generating a new formal specification from the model if the model is frequently changed.

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Spichkova M., Zhu X. and Mou D. (2013). Do we Really Need to Write Documentation for a System? - CASE Tool Add-ons: Generator+Editor for a Precise Documentation . In Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Model-Driven Engineering and Software Development - Volume 1: MODELSWARD, ISBN 978-989-8565-42-6, pages 170-174. DOI: 10.5220/0004347101700174


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@conference{modelsward13,
author={Maria Spichkova and Xiuna Zhu and Dongyue Mou},
title={Do we Really Need to Write Documentation for a System? - CASE Tool Add-ons: Generator+Editor for a Precise Documentation},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Model-Driven Engineering and Software Development - Volume 1: MODELSWARD,},
year={2013},
pages={170-174},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004347101700174},
isbn={978-989-8565-42-6},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Model-Driven Engineering and Software Development - Volume 1: MODELSWARD,
TI - Do we Really Need to Write Documentation for a System? - CASE Tool Add-ons: Generator+Editor for a Precise Documentation
SN - 978-989-8565-42-6
AU - Spichkova M.
AU - Zhu X.
AU - Mou D.
PY - 2013
SP - 170
EP - 174
DO - 10.5220/0004347101700174