On the similarities and differences between program documentation and test documentation

Program documentation is a vital source of information for software engineers charged with making changes to complex applications. Test documentation can be used to help future stakeholders understand the rationale behind the testing effort. This panel will discuss some of the similar features and salient differences between program documentation and test documentation. Although both types of documentation are usually written by and for different groups of people (for reasonable-sized projects), there is enough overlap that each could be improved by studying the communication strategies of the other.