If you want to quickly generate the skeleton of a documentation project, Storyteller comes with the dotnet stdocs seed (st doc-seed in Storyteller 3.*) command.
The first step is to write a file called outline.txt in your /documentation folder. Configure the topics in the order and structure you want with the right titles with a format like this (originally used to generate the documentation you are reading):
index:Storyteller for Executable Specifications and Living Documentation terminology system_under_test:Connecting Storyteller to the System under Test language:Crafting the Specification Language table_vs_flow:Table vs. Flow Based Testing fixtures fixtures/context:Using the Specification Context fixtures/state:State Management across Fixtures grammars grammars/actions:Carrying out Actions grammars/facts:Asserting Facts grammars/assertions:Asserting Values grammars/paragraphs:'Macros' with Paragraph Grammars grammars/tables:Tables grammars/decision_tables:Decision Tables grammars/sets:Verifying a Set of Data grammars/embedded_section:Embedded Sections grammars/reusing:Reusing Grammars across Fixtures grammars/currying:Currying Grammars for more Expressive Specifications comments:Embedding Comments in Specifications selection_lists:Selection Lists system_state:Setting up System State conversion:Data Conversion within Specifications ui:The User Interface ui/spec-explorer:The Specification Explorer ui/spec-editor:The Specification Editor performance:Performance Timing instrumentation:Instrumenting Specification Execution ci:Integration with Continuous Integration docs:Living Documentation Generation docs/navigation:Creating a Navigation Structure docs/outlines:Topic Outlines docs/topics:Topic Files docs/samples:Embedding Code Samples docs/theme:Documentation Theme docs/running:Running the Documentation Website Locally docs/export:Exporting the Documentation
Once you are happy with the order, run st doc-seed to create a shell of the topic files.
Right now this is a one way generation, but if there is demand (or better yet a pull request;-)), this could be extended to be bi-directional.
dotnet stdocs seedSeeds a topic file structure from an outline.txt file
dotnet stdocsseed [-d, --directory ] [-v, --version ] [-p, --project ] [-c, --code []]
| Flags | |
|---|---|
| [-d, --directory <directory>] | The documentation directory. The default is 'documentation' |
| [-v, --version <version>] | Override the application version. Default is 'Unknown' |
| [-p, --project <project>] | GitHub project name when exporting to project pages of a GitHub repo |
| [-c, --code [<code1 code2 code3 ...>]] | Override the directories where sample scanning should be enabled. Default is [src] |