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Re:A Better Way to Code: Documentation Driven Development by kmerroll on Wednesday June 26, 2024 @12:21PM (#40801660)
Wholeheartedly agree, however... It's well accepted that most developers would rather chew off their own arms than write documentation. The acceptance, sort of, of TDD shows that developers would rather code even in pseudo code test languages than write narrative prose.
Re:A Better Way to Code: Documentation Driven Development by datavirtue on Wednesday June 26, 2024 @12:34PM (#40801784)
I write a "functional description" that describes the functionality of each screen from a user's perspective. It also contains technical details to jumpstart devs but the main focus is on describing how the software works.

Oddly enough, I write these in Word and keep them on SharePoint. This allows the team to add comments, maintaining the historic discussion around certain functionality.