C5 DESCRIBING PROGRAMS
This section is concerned with the written comments and graphical illustrations accompanying a program. The symbols and layout conventions referred to are those given in British Standards BS 4058:1987 and BS 7738:1994. Related topics can be found in Section F5 User interface and documentation, Section A4 Systems design and life cycle, Section A5 Describing systems and Section C6 Testing and running programs.
Program documentation is the documentation that is produced for those stages of the software life cycle that are concerned with module development and integration. Program documentation is particularly important at the maintenance stage of the system life cycle.
Software will need to be modified during its lifetime ...
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