Developer experience · Systematic mapping study of scientific literature, with database search, inclusion/exclusion, snowballing and expert input.
A mapping study on documentation in Continuous Software Development
Peer-reviewed research · 2022
Summary
Documentation is often poor in Agile/Lean/DevOps contexts; the review maps challenges, practices and tools and highlights gaps for continuous-development documentation.
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Reported result
What the study found
Documentation is often poor in Agile/Lean/DevOps contexts; the review maps challenges, practices and tools and highlights gaps for continuous-development documentation.
Research question
What the authors investigated
What documentation challenges, practices and supporting tools exist in continuous software development?
Design
Systematic mapping study of scientific literature, with database search, inclusion/exclusion, snowballing and expert input.
Sample and setting
Software-engineering papers published 2001–2019; search narrowed from roughly 35,000 studies to about 200 relevant papers.
Scope and transfer
Limitations to keep in view
Potential database, selection, extraction and publication-bias threats; primary-study heterogeneity limits causal conclusions.
Research sources
Authoritative publisher/repository page fetched in this run; abstract, bibliographic metadata, methods/results and limitations on the cited page support this synthesis (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S095058492100183X). Firecrawl research job 01a14366-d263-71d0-bc44-b95482987b7b returned this citation and metadata.