RE: Validating manuals

Subject: RE: Validating manuals
From: "Bonnie Granat" <bgranat -at- granatedit -dot- com>
To: <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2007 11:07:27 -0400



> Michelle Vina-Baltsas wrote:
> >
> > > My company QA department wants to begin validating our
> > > operating instructions against the software user interface
> > > (UI) documents . I use FrameMaker 7.0 (unstructured) to
> > > create the manual and am using conditional text to manually
> > > trace the UI tags to the specific sentences/passages in the
> > > FrameMaker file. This is very time consuming and tedious.
> > > Does anyone have to do this type of tracing to a UI or to
> > > another document type? If so, how are you doing it?
>

This is usually the job of a technical editor.


Bonnie Granat
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RE: Validating manuals: From: stevefjong

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