Documentation generator
A documentation generator is a programming tool that generates software documentation intended for programmers or end users, or both, from a set of source code files, and in some cases, binary files. Some generators, such as Doxygen or Javadoc, use special comments to drive the generation.Types of generation
Document generation can be divided in several types:
- Batch generation
- Text block correspondence
- Forms
- Documentation synthesis:
- * Documentation can be inferred from code
- * Documentation can be inferred from execution traces
- * Documentation can be inferred from mailing lists
Some integrated development environments provide interactive access to documentation, code metadata, etc.
