Question

What are the software/ Wiki you use to write and share your specs about the developers, testers and management?

Do you use Wiki system, and if so, what Wiki software you use?

Or do you use Sharepoint to manage and version the specs? One problem with SharePoint 2003 as specs platform is that it’s very hard to collaborate among different people.

For backward compatibility sake, I would also like to have the platform able to import Microsoft Word seamlessly. And it would certainly help if the interface is similar to Microsoft Word.

Any idea?

Answer 1

I’ve used Confluence at a number of places, it’s a pretty powerful wiki and very good for creating specifications that can be shared amongst various parties. See:

http://www.atlassian.com/software/confluence/

There’s some more information here on the advantages of using Confluence:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/170352/confluence-experiences

EDIT: I’ve updated this to deal with the Microsoft Word import feature you mentioned. Confluence supports this through the Office Connector here:

http://www.atlassian.com/software/confluence/plugins/office-connector.jsp

There’s also a Sharepoint connector:

http://www.atlassian.com/software/confluence/plugins/sharepoint-connector.jsp

plus a whole bunch of plugins:

http://www.atlassian.com/software/confluence/plugins/sharepoint-connector.jsp

Some of these are user contributed also. I can’t recommend Confluence enough as a commercial wiki.

I’ve also used JSPWiki, which is open source. it’s ok but not as good as confluence, see:

http://www.jspwiki.org/