Best Practices for Keeping Architecture Documentation Up to Date
Sprecher: Falk Sippach
Voxxed Days Zürich
Tuesday, 25th of March 2025, 10:10 a.m.
Zürich
Explicit software architecture is the guarantee for successful software projects. Sufficient and up-to-date documentation is needed to support communication. The docs-as-code approach provides support by bringing the documentation closer to the source code in the form of lightweight text and graphic formats, storing it in the version management system, and editing it with developer tools (IDE/text editor, build tools, CI/CD pipelines) and integrating it into the software development processes.
The presentation introduces easy-to-use methods templates, and tools that are used to create high-quality, self-validating software documentation. We look at approaches such as Docs-as-Code, lightweight text formats, storage in version management, and embedding in the build and review processes. Making software architecture concepts visible in the code and integrating software analysis tools enable the continuous comparison of target and actual structures and bring architecture documentation to life.
