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Developing and Documenting a Software The software industry has grown by leaps and bounds over the past decade and the industry is definitely poised to control its growth trajectory even if at a lower rate as a result of the global crisis. In the face of limited resources availability, just developing newer software is not sufficient; software developers need to focus on quality, while companies need to invest significantly in developing their own Quality Assurance and Quality Control (QA/QC) parameters in line with global standards. Software development companies also need to focus on developing a strategy to test any newly developed software to reduce bugs and coding errors, which often creep into software. Here I will discuss the best practices for documenting such a software development strategy. Scope and Overview This is the starting section of the software documentation and provides information about the scope of the strategy document. This section clearly m...