A case study on the long-term effects of software redocumentation
Rostkowycz, A.J.; Rajlich, V.; Marcus, A.
Software Maintenance, 2004. Proceedings. 20th IEEE International Conference on
Volume , Issue , 11-14 Sept. 2004 Page(s): 92 - 101
Digital Object Identifier   10.1109/ICSM.2004.1357794
Summary: This work presents data from a long-term (four year) case study of the effects of incremental software redocumentation of data communications services software that is a part of a check processing system. It presents data on the relative cost and completeness of the incremental redocumentation and its impact on programmer productivity and cost of the software change. The break-even point occurred after 1.5 years of effort, which means that the extra investment in redocumentation started paying off after 1.5 years of redocumentation activity.

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