Quality Control in Software Documentation Based on Measurement of Text Comprehension and Text Comprehensibility.

Lehner, Franz

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Publication Date: 1993

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Quality Control in Software Documentation Based on Measurement of Text Comprehension and Text Comprehensibility.

Lehner, Franz

Information Processing and Management, v29 n5 p551-68 Sep-Oct 1993

Discusses methods of textual documentation that can be used for software documentation. Highlights include measurement of text comprehensibility; methods for the measurement of documentation quality, including readability and the Cloze Procedure; tools for the measurement of text readability; and the development of the Reading Measurability System, based on HyperCard. (Contains 42 references.) (LRW)

Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Computer Software, Documentation, Hypermedia, Measurement Techniques, Problems, Quality Control, Readability, Readability Formulas, Reading Comprehension

Publication Type: Information Analyses; Opinion Papers; Reports - Descriptive; Journal Articles

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Language: English

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