RE: Validating manuals

["Bonnie Granat" <bgranat -at- granatedit -dot- com>]

> 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
http://www.GranatEdit.com


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