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Forest: a new approach to better system documentation

The Forest Project aims at building a repository in which documentation artefacts about any system, and relations between them, can be stored. From the contents of this repository, documents can be generated and automatic checks can be performed to find out whether the system is consistent and complete. Furthermore, three types of analysis (coverage analysis, cost/benefit analysis, impact analysis) can be performed to provide status information about the system. Although the meta model of the repository is currently very simple, two case studies have shown that it is already quite useful.

During a TU Delft Master's graduation project, hosted at Chess, research was done to this new documentation approach. The main goal of this graduation project was to verify that the proposal can actually be used for documenting systems developed in a business environment.

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Website last updated: July 11, 2007