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Object-oriented programming improves the reusability of software components. Extensive reuse of existing software enhances the importance of documentation. To increase productivity in documenting and to make the structure of documentation better suitable for object-oriented software systems, we suggest applying object-oriented technology to the documentation, too. This makes it possible to reuse documentation by extending and modifying it without making copies and without making any changes to the original documentation. Additionally, interests of various groups of readers (for example, reusers and maintenance staff) can be taken into account, and easy access to relevant information can be given.In this paper, we briefly describe a documentation scheme for object-oriented software systems. This scheme distinguishes among overview, external view, and internal view of both static and dynamic aspects …