The developer-documenter relationship in Java software development
Glenn McAllister · 1999
This paper describes the developer-documenter relationship in Java™ API software development. The lack of trust between developer and documenter is highlighted in the issue of updating doc comments in Java source code, and two potential solutions are presented. The first, long-term solution is to work to increase the levels of trust between developers and documenters. The second, short-term solution is to use a documentation tool that creates, modifies, or removes doc comments in a source file without changing the source code.