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'Living Documentation' is a term coined by Gojko Adzik in his book Specification by example. His work (that is mostly about BDD - Behavior Driven Development) gave inspiration to the work of Cyrille Martraire, a french software engineer who tries to take the approach to a new level in his book Living Documentation. The core principles of Living Documentation are:. One of the crucial insights taken from Cyrille’s book is that it is possible to produce a lot of helpful documentation artifacts by traversing the code using automated generators. The key difference to most existing tools that generate documentation (including diagrams) from code is that the tool chain is written in such a way that it permits the development team to adapt and enhance what comes out of it, producing results that both have real value and are still as close to the single source of truth (the code) as possible.