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- Sometimes, your team may be small and you may not have enough hands to handle the creation of documentation, let alone, time to keep it up to date. This is an area of opportunity in which automating the process of generating documentation could be helpful. And by doing so, the time spent on creating and maintaining documentation can be better spent on other tasks. Some of the most well-known tools for doing so are Swagger for API documentation, as well as Swashbuckle, Nswag, and Autorest. To generate documentation from source code, you can use tools, such as Visual Studio, where an XML documentation file is generated from the code that is commented in your source code. And other tools in this space are DocFX, Doxygen, and Sandcastle. Several programming languages also have their own documentation tools, such as Javadoc for Java, JSDoc for JavaScript, phpDocumentation for, you guessed it, php, Rdoc for Ruby, and so…

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