All entries for Developer documentation

parson supported the Digital Industries, Factory Automation and Information Management division at Siemens in establishing a standardized authoring process. read more

Gernot Baumann has been working as a technical communicator at parson since 2018. In our blog, we talked to him about his experience as a career changer, trends in technical communication, his current work projects, and more.  read more

Digitalization is increasing the need for software documentation. This article provides an overview of the characteristics of software documentation and is geared toward beginners. We will try to give an answer to the question what good software documentation is and what technical authors need to know to create it. read more

For their localization software LiDAR-LOC, SICK needed an online help. parson developed a topic-based information architecture and created the online help. read more

When asking software engineers about API documentation, you soon find out that there are two groups. The first group is convinced that good code does not require any explanation. Members of the second group frequently read documentation and even enjoy writing it. You also find out that software engineers have completely different opinions and approaches when it comes to the layout, presentation, and contents of a perfect API documentation. read more