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Home Architecture, security and coding The value of good documentation
The value of good documentation
Written by Division by Zero   
Saturday, 03 April 2010 10:26

About a year ago we removed an application we didn't need anymore. The application was build about 5 years ago. We knew there were some leftovers in some other services that were specifically build for this application and, therefore, needed to be removed. As usual this functionality doesn't bother anyone, so that will take a while.

A week ago a colleague of mine conducted a study on a component. We wanted to know how often it was used to determine the impact of a certain change. To our surprise we came across working and operational software (our component is part of them) in some back office systems that were part of this original project. After some more research we learned that the functionality was build in the back offices, but never reached the original application (I believe because the project was killed).

I wonder, would better documentation could have prevented this to happen? I think so, but I'm still in doubt.

Any thought on this? Add a comment or use the forum. Let me know!

 

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