Documentationdriven
Documentation-driven development, sometimes written as documentationdriven, is a software engineering approach in which documentation—such as requirements, designs, interfaces, and acceptance criteria—plays a central role in guiding implementation. The idea is to produce a coherent, testable body of documentation that can serve as the primary reference for developers, testers, and stakeholders, and to align the project around clearly defined artifacts.
In practice, teams create artifacts that describe system goals, data models, API contracts, architectural decisions, state
Documentation-driven development is distinct from, but related to, other practices such as design-first or API-first design,
Benefits typically cited include improved requirement clarity, better change management, easier onboarding, and stronger maintainability. Potential
The approach is often used in safety-critical or regulated domains, in API design processes, and in teams