A Highly Automated Documentation System: Component Design

Designing component based software has often been considered a paradigm for large scale enterprise software development. There are also evident reasons for this as the most prominent benefits of component based software engineering are usually observed in large and complex applications. However, we feel that applying component based design into mobile applications in resource constrained devices can be very efficient in terms of modifiability, robustness, and time-to-market. This paper discusses a component design of a mobile, highly automated documentation system. Along with the actual design, we focus on the benefits of component based software engineering in our mobile environment and discuss a case study in which a documentation system for emergency medical care is constructed.