Conclusions -- additional requirements
In my opinion,
software and requirement documentation support is important.
In my experience, the documentation perspective
must be accepted before documentation support
is of any use.
In practice, the documentation perspective
may be experienced as annoying,
as irrelevant, or
simply orthogonal (meaning something completely different).
So, before attempting to formulate additional requirements,
we must convince ourselves that hypertextual access
to our requirements and software documentation
is important.
Additional requirements
- animated demos -- plugins are platform dependent
- interactive explanation -- to 'learn' the code
- and probably more ...
slide: This is only the beginning ...
Let me assure you,
I do consider it as important,
and reflecting on the need to
provide adequate documentation,
I only have to remember the occasions
where I wished there was an animated demo running
on my platform, or some kind of
interactive explanation (as people may provide),
or ...
Concluding, with the Web we have the opportunity to
meet many of the requirements of software
documentation as mentioned in the beginning almost for free.
All we need is a little imagination to make it work
as it should.