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Document

Uniquely identified unit of information for human use, such as a report, specification, manual or book, in printed or electronic form. [ ISO/IEC 9294 ]

Other Definitions

Document (verb) [ ISO/IEC/IEEE 24765 ]: To add comments to a computer program.

Document [ ISO/IEC 15910 ]: An item of documentation.

Document [ ISO/IEC 20000 ]: Information and its supporting medium.

Document [ ISO/IEC 26514 ]: Separately identified piece of documentation which could be part of a documentation set.

Notes

Example: in software engineering: project plans, specifications, test plans, user manuals. [ ISO/IEC/IEEE 24765 ]
Documents include both paper and electronic documents. [ ISO/IEC/IEEE 24765 ]

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