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Re: Division of responsibility for creating online help
Subject:Re: Division of responsibility for creating online help From:Imogen Casebourne <imogen -at- ASSYST-INTL -dot- COM> Date:Thu, 10 Jun 1999 14:08:16 METDST
Hi Lydia,
I agree with the basic division of responsibilities that you outline.
But how does your review process work? Does someone go through and test
that all the context sensitive help IDs are OK? Do you create test
plans for this?
> Date: Wed, 9 Jun 1999 15:21:41 -0400
> From: Lydia Wong <lydiaw -at- FPOINT -dot- COM>
> Subject: Re: Division of responsibility for creating online help
>
> I'll bite because this one's easy: the writers create the online help file
> (write it, edit it, make the graphics for it, etc.), the developers review
> it, and we work together to get the context-sensitive help IDs worked out.
>
> HTH,
>
> Lydia : )
> ------------------
> Lydia Wong
> Technical Writer
> FarPoint Technologies, Inc.
> www.fpoint.com
