A semi-automatic source code documentation method for small software development teams

Abstract

Software developers often face the task of documenting source code. For many of them, documenting code development is a boring task. However, source code documentation is an important task, especially when dealing with groups of developers. An updated documentation allows group members to have greater visibility on what has been and is being developed, allowing the reuse of source code. This research aims at designing, developing and validating a semi-automatic documentation method for source code from the existing design documentation on a particular project being developed by a small team, as well as updating this documentation from information gathered from the source code under development. It is understood as design documentation, those documents or parts of documents that are linked directly to the code under construction.