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-Text-Runner is an agile documentation tool that helps create living end-user
-readable documentation. An example is the text you are reading right now, which
-TextRunner verifies for correctness.
+Text-Runner is a test framework for user-facing documentation. It helps keep
+documentation up to date. An example is the text you are reading right now.
+TextRunner verifies it for technical correctness.
 
 If you tell it how, TextRunner can read and understand any form of
 Markdown-formatted text in any human language as well as complex data in tables,