$10 White Paper - Using Structured Wikis and DITA for Software Engineering

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Abstract

In this paper, Lisa Dyer and Anne Gentle describe methods for creating structured wikis and wiki pages using the Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) to enable software development processes. Written using the ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) template, this white paper details how to work DITA and wikis into your software engineering processes including Agile development.

DITA is a well-established OASIS standard for creating standard information types and domain-specific markup vocabularies with XML. Merging DITA’s strong semantic markup, reusability, and output capability with the flexibility, collaboration, and ease of authoring of a wiki offers product development teams a viable environment for efficient and practical information exchange and delivery.

Software engineering and development processes, especially those using Agile development practices, can be streamlined and efficient when a highly collaborative and motivated staff has the tools to create software, from the research and design phases, through coding, testing, documenting, and delivering high-quality software products.