VI.3 System Scope and Context
This chapter describes the various contexts for which docToolchain is designed, including its functional scope.
Business Context
The following diagram shows the business context in which docToolchain operates:
Figure 6.2: Business context
The preceding diagram is correct regarding the connections from docToolchain; however, the relationships between the two actors, Contributor and Reader, are abstract.
These actors represent users who contribute to the documentation or access it. The connections shown between the actors and the neighbor systems are abstract because these users do not directly access the files. In addition to this, they might use different applications to read and modify the content.
docToolchain itself uses exactly the applications shown or reads and modifies files directly.
It creates output documents directly as file content. Note that, only for Confluence, the Confluence API and, therefore, Confluence as a System is used.
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