Using design rationales for agile documentation

Agile software processes have been discussed as flexible and light-weight alternatives to establish software engineering approaches, in order to overcome the obstacles created by the cost of producing and maintaining documents on higher abstraction levels. Depending on requirements and needs on the documents itself, agile documentation becomes a key issue and brings up questions on how to create, maintain and distribute documents among the team members without creating unnecessary or unjustifiable cost. This paper describes a technique allowing to produce documentation automatically, by conducting analysis on the series of development step taken during project planning and enactment.