Use Code Documentation, first. Add Wiki & other methods, if possible. I know that is going to be difficult to maintain it. Practical answer: In practical terms, the first thing that developers do, its …

I would document as I added/modified code. Other than that I would also document public APIs or any interfaces between modules. If you were to document all of the code you may not see the …

The code is completely undocumented, both code comments and overall system design and there is no help on the web (unused outside the industry). The current developers have been …

Methods are created for the sole reason to document the code (and easier TDD). This results in Function Hell. The code is less readable than it was originally, and while refactoring, no …

I find Doxygen very useful for extracting information from raw source code. Methods, arguments, types, variables, dependency trees, call and caller trees... All of that in hypertexted HTML for …

Sep 5, 2023 · Code comments although frequently discussed as “documenting intent” are NOT formal, are never stored or read separately from the code. Good code comments make the …

For any project where it is obvious, given the small size of it, coupled with the particularly clean code, that you will spend more time writing documentation than all the future maintainers …

Nov 21, 2016 · Because this is possible to do, it means the comments are useless. Find the engineers who have written these scripts to automatically document the code and use them as …

You should document: the intent, the why; and. what may not be obvious, the how. Why did you optimise this bit, what exactly is that shortcut for, what is the result you expect, what's the …

A coding standards document's purpose is to make sure that all code is designed, written and laid out the same to make it easier for a developer to switch from one persons work to another …