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Supercharged Coding with GenAI
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Software engineers not only write a lot of code, but they also need to read and understand code written by others. The code could be written the same day by other developers or be part of a legacy system maintained over multiple decades. While clean, well-written code is a critical aspect, code documentation is also a fundamental way of communicating with other developers.
Software documentation comes in multiple forms that serve different needs. Technical documentation includes the comments in source code, API descriptions, database schemas, and software architecture diagrams. User documentation is a guide on how an end user can use software. The software engineering process also adds specific documentation on requirements, specifications, testing plans, CI/CD pipelines, sprint planning, and much more. This chapter focuses on the documentation of the source code.
A general guideline is that the documentation should focus on the “why...