Speakers
Ed Marshall
PresenterStart
March 15, 2017 - 2:00 PM
End
March 15, 2017 - 3:00 PM
Generating API Docs Automatically from the Source Code
Documenting APIs (application programming interfaces) presents a problem that will occur in any group, no matter how well-meaning or conscientious the development and writing teams are. Sooner or later, the code will diverge from the documentation. Many developers favor an approach, coined using the “Single Source of Truth”. This means generating the documentation directly from the source code using specially formatted comments in the code. Historically, this approach has only been used to generate reference information. However, you can extend the tools used to extract the comments and generate both your reference documentation and conceptual, getting started information, and flowcharts.
This webinar will introduce and demonstrate three tools commonly used to generate reference documentation from the code. It will also show how you can use a “fill in the blank” template to produce quality API reference and conceptual/”getting started” documentation that developers will use and respect:
- Doxygen – Used primarily for C APIs
- Javadoc – Used primarily for Java APIs
- Swagger – Used primarily for REST APIs
By learning how to use tools such as Doxygen, Javadoc, and Swagger, which extract specially formatted comments from the code, we enhance our value to our organizations and to our users, software developers. More specifically, we qualify ourselves to opportunities offering higher pay and prestige within software development teams.
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