Editing Documentation generator

{{Short description|Automation technology for creating software documentation}}
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In [[software development]], a '''documentation generator''' is an [[automation]] technology that generates [[software documentation|documentation]]. A generator is often used to generate [[API documentation]] which is generally for [[programmers]] or operational documents (such as a manual) for [[end user]]s. A generator often pulls content from [[source code|source]], [[binary file|binary]] or [[Logging (computing)|log]] files.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Zhang |first1=Sai |last2=Zhang |first2=Cheng |last3=Ernst |first3=Michael |title=2011 26th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE 2011) |chapter=Automated documentation inference to explain failed tests |date=2011 |pages=63–72 |doi=10.1109/ASE.2011.6100145|isbn=978-1-4577-1639-3 |s2cid=14846118 |chapter-url=http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/mernst/pubs/test-documentation-ase2011.pdf }}</ref> Some generators, such as [[Javadoc]] and [[Doxygen]], use special [[comment (computer programming)|source code comments]] to drive content and  formatting.

==See also==
* [[Comparison of documentation generators]]
* [[Template processor]]
* [[Static code analysis]]
* [[Literate programming]]
* [[Integrated development environment]]

==References==
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