What's the point of documentation?
Louise Pryor

TL;DR
This paper explores the purposes and forms of documentation within spreadsheets, providing a brief characterization to understand their role and importance.
Contribution
It offers a concise analysis of how documentation functions in spreadsheets, highlighting its various purposes and forms.
Findings
Documentation clarifies spreadsheet intent and usage
Different forms of documentation serve diverse user needs
Proper documentation enhances spreadsheet usability and maintenance
Abstract
We give a brief characterisation of the purposes and forms of documentation in and of spreadsheets.
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Taxonomy
TopicsSpreadsheets and End-User Computing · Big Data and Business Intelligence · Software Engineering Techniques and Practices
