A unified process for software and documentation development

This paper proposes the integration of the documentation development process into the rational unified process (RUP), a formal development process for software applications. Specifically, the paper identifies (in RUP parlance) the workers in the process (such as technical writer, information architect), the artifacts required by and produced by the documentation process (including concept, task and reference documentation), and the documentation development workflow (the activities of the workers who produce the artifacts). This paper describes a documentation development process in terms of its integration points with software development processes, and also in terms of its own flow and progression as a separate process.