Abstract

Software development (software) – one of the most that dynamically growing today. Meanwhile, it has developed the industry with its own rules, traditions, standards, operating time. Requirements for the relevance of the created product is now equal in importance to the requirements for the creation of a quality product at a certain time, not going beyond the project budget. Developed and continues to change and be supplemented by the legal base. If before the foundation of its laws were copyrighted third-party developers, but now they are significantly redesigned in the direction of protection of intellectual and other rights of all participants in the process of creating and operating software. Accordingly, came a more formal approach to the process of software development. This necessitated the ordering in this field invariably concomitant as documentary support of the development process. However, it is large enough entropy observed in this area. On the one hand, the creation of the documentation required financial and human resources, which leads to a rise in the cost of any project, on the other hand – still a strong tradition of informal approach of most software companies in the process of creating their products. The paper attempts a systematic approach to the analysis of processes of documentary support of the technological cycle of software development. The variants of the software products, documentation for each of them and the stage of the process in which it is created. The technological process is tied to models of software product life cycle, popular with the collective software development.

Keywords

Software development, documentation, life cycle, standards, types of software, documentation analysis.