Open Source BSD Documentation Software

Doxygen is a JavaDoc like documentation system for C++, C, Java and IDL.

The Heirloom Project provides standard Unix utilities.

TestLink is a web based Test Management tool. The application provides Test specification, Test plans and execution, Reporting, Requirements specification and collaborate with well-known bug trackers. Repository: https://github.com/TestLinkOpenSourceTRMS

Utilities for general- and special-purpose documentation. Includes reStructuredText, the easy to read, easy to use, what-you-see-is-what-you-get plaintext markup language.

"Roberge's Used Robot (RUR) : a Python Learning Environment" is a Python implementation of a "robot environment" as introduced by R. Pattis in 1981. **It is obsolete.** See https://github.com/aroberge/rur-ple

cloc (Count Lines Of Code) counts, and computes differences of, comment lines, blank lines, and physical lines of source code in many programming languages. cloc is now being developed at https://github.com/AlDanial/cloc

Natural Docs is an open-source documentation generator for multiple programming languages. You document your code in a natural syntax that reads like plain English. Natural Docs then scans your code and builds high-quality HTML documentation from it. SourceForge houses the source code and issue database for the old Perl version of Natural Docs, version 1.52. It is still available but no longer being updated. Please see NaturalDocs.org for the 2.x source code and issue database. However, you can still download the both the old and the new 2.x releases of Natural Docs here.

The Hassle-Free automatic API documentation generation for Laravel. Automatic rules fetching from injected Request and by regexp. Automatic routes fetching from Laravel Routes. Support for Laravel logs. Support for SQL query and query time. Support for HTTP response time and memory consumption. Support for Authorization Headers. Support for File uploads, and support for Eloquents events. Display extra documentation using markdown. Saves the history of previous requests. Added filters to sort, group, and filter routes by methods, controllers, middleware, and routes. Export Laravel API, routes, rules, and documentation to Postman and OpenAPI 3.0.0.

Automatically generate your API documentation from your existing Laravel/Lumen/Dingo routes.

Foswiki is an Enterprise wiki, typically used to run a collaboration platform, knowledge base or document management system. Users can create wiki applications using the Topic Markup Language, and developers can extend its functionality with plugins. Foswiki stands for "Free and Open Source" wiki to emphasize its commitment to Open Source software.

docToolchain is a toolkit built around the “docs as code” philosophy, designed to make writing, maintaining, and publishing technical documentation as smooth as software development itself. It provides a suite of scripts and integrations to generate documentation from AsciiDoc (and related formats), run automated checks, incorporate diagrams, and publish outputs in different formats (HTML, PDF, etc.). The framework encourages documentation and architecture artifacts to live alongside source code, versioned in the same repositories, so changes in code and docs can evolve together. It supports templates (such as the arc42 architecture template), reusable snippets, and modular documentation where different aspects (API docs, architecture, user guides) are composed. The toolchain also includes validation stages (e.g. sanity checks, broken link detection) to catch issues before publication.

AsciiDoc is a presentable text document format for writing articles, UNIX man pages and other small to medium sized documents. The asciidoc(1) command translates AsciiDoc files to HTML, DocBook and LinuxDoc formats.

The project is to translate latest vim help documentations into simplified Chinese.

A fast and reliable tool, written in Java 8, for generating professional UML sequence diagrams from text. Supports actors, con-/destructors, threads, broadcasts, notes, and fragments. Can serve as a Javadoc taglet. Exports PDF, (E)PS, SVG, PNG, ... The source code is hosted at http://github.com/sdedit/sdedit

Requirements management tool designed to achieve full SDLC traceability for features, requirements, design, implementation and testing. UI for requirements derivation, version control, attributes etc. Upgrade path also available at https://sourceforge.net/projects/nimble

docbook2X converts DocBook documents to man and Texinfo format.

Official Support and Documentation for SourceForge.net, provided by the SourceForge.net Service Operations Group (SOG).

Personal wiki that lives in one self-modifying XHTML containing software, interface and data. Very useful for creating small websites and mantaining notes or todo-lists; completely javascript-programmable, supports encryption and file embedding.

The eng-practices project by Google is a public repository that documents the company’s established engineering best practices, accumulated through years of large-scale software development across diverse teams and languages. Its purpose is to share Google’s collective experience in areas such as code review, collaboration, and quality assurance with the broader software engineering community. The repository provides practical guidelines designed to help developers and reviewers produce cleaner, more maintainable, and higher-quality code. It includes Google’s comprehensive Code Review Guidelines, split into two major sections: The Code Reviewer’s Guide and The Change Author’s Guide, which detail the expectations and processes for both reviewers and authors. Additionally, it explains key terminology and practices commonly used within Google to make the documentation accessible to external audiences.

Epydoc is a tool for generating API documentation for Python modules, based on their docstrings. Epydoc supports two output formats (HTML and PDF), and four markup languages for docstrings (Epytext, Javadoc, ReStructuredText, and plaintext).

A reStructuredText editor plugin for Eclipse. This project aims to provide a good support for Sphinx documentation generation in the Eclipse IDE.

helpdeco dissects HLP help files (WinHelp) of Windows 3.0, 3.1, 3.11, and '95 and many MVB multi media viewer titles into all files required for a rebuild using the appropriate help compiler HC30, HC31, HCP, HCW, HCRTF, WMVC, MMVC or MVC.

DEP4E integrates DocBook XML and DocBook XSL into Eclipse IDE to create, edit and process DocBook projects.

Python Audio Tools are a collection of audio handling programs. These include programs for CD extraction, track conversion from one audio format to another, track renaming and retagging, track identification, CD burning from tracks, and more.

Alef++, is a new programming language like Perl and Lisp syntax, with a many changing in classical languages designs, her specification designed to be implemented for any VM, by default can access to any private/protected/default Java fields or methods.