{{Short description|Automation technology for creating software documentation}} {{refimprove|auto=yes|date=December 2009}} In software development, a '''documentation generator''' is an automation technology that generates documentation. A generator is often used to generate API documentation which is generally for programmers or operational documents (such as a manual) for end users. A generator often pulls content from source, binary or 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 source code comments to drive content and formatting.
==See also== * Comparison of documentation generators * Template processor * Static code analysis * Literate programming * Integrated development environment
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