Applying Self-Adaptation to Automate the Management of Online Documentation of Telecom Systems

Engineering software-intensive systems, such as production systems, is complex as these systems are subject to various types of changes that are often difficult to anticipate before deployment. Tackling this complexity requires joint expertise from different backgrounds. In this paper we focus on the problem of maintaining online technical documentation of telecom systems. In the context of continuous deployment and ever-changing user needs, high quality of the documentation of such products is in a key concern of users. To tackle this problem, different experts worked together equipping the online documentation system with a feedback loop. This feedback loop tracks changes in the system and its context and automatically adapts the documentation accordingly. The results demonstrate that this self-adaptation approach offers a viable solution to tackle the maintainability problem of online documentation of telecom systems.