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Documentor mindsets: Considerations when contributing learning resources for software development technologies

Aug 2026 · Empirical Software Engineering · Vol 32 · 1 citation · 117 references
Computer Science

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A framework for describing documentor mindsets, and their associated considerations across the three dimensions is contributed, surface the need to reconsider existing perspectives of the documentation creation process, including the role of the documentor and metrics to measure documentation quality.

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