Improving the Quality Process - Improving Documentation Techniques(3)

Improving the Way Systems Are Described: Replacing Words with Pictures

It can take anywhere from 15 to 30 pages of commentary to adequately describe this process. Yet this graphic does it in one page. This type of flow mapping is far more efficient than describing the process in a commentary. It is also far more maintainable. This type of flow can be used to generate the tests required to validate the system during the test effort.

Visualization techniques create systems that are self-documenting.