Docs Like Code: Collaborate and Automate to Improve Technical Documentation

by Anne Gentle, Eric Holscher (Foreword), Diane Skwish (Contributor)

Looking for ways to strengthen your technical writing team and gain efficiency by incorporating workflows from developers? When you treat docs as code, you align your efforts and streamline processes through collaboration, test automation, continuous integration, version control, reviews, and deployment. Understand the important shifts as early excitement may fade but you will gain the expertise to solve the hard problems as you iterate and improve. The third edition with a new subtitle is now available. This book assumes technical writing knowledge while describing the docs-as-code approach, reasons for using it, who participates in it, requirements gathering, and how to plan for and implement docs as code system.

132 pages, Paperback

Published November 14, 2022

Reviews

[Michal · Rating 3 out of 5]

Great intro, but just intro

Basically whole book describes what should be considered when setting up docs as code projects. Although raised questions are interesting and important, the answers or consequences are rarely mentioned.

[carley · Rating 3 out of 5]

Would have been nice to learn about the drawbacks and consequences of moving to docs as code.