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Write Great Code, Volume 3
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Write Great Code, Volume 3

by Randall Hyde
August 2020
Intermediate to advanced
376 pages
9h 59m
English
No Starch Press
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9SYSTEM DOCUMENTATION

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System documentation specifies system requirements, design, test cases, and test procedures. In a large software system, the system documentation is often the most expensive part; the Waterfall software development model, for example, often produces more documentation than code. In addition, typically you must maintain system documentation manually, so if you change a description (such as a requirement) in one document, you’ll need to search through the system documentation and update every other document that references that description for consistency. This is a difficult and costly process.

In this chapter, we’ll look ...

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