Patent Document ID: 8326889
Application ID: 12953976
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. A computer-implemented method performed by one or more processors for automatically generating software documentation, the method comprising the following operations: identifying a transport request identifying at least a portion of a set of modifications made to a first instance of a business application in a source system, where the set of modifications are to be implemented in a second instance of the business application in a corresponding target system; identifying at least one view identified by the transport request, each identified view comprising a modified view of information associated with the business application; accessing, for each identified view, a set of metadata information describing a structure of the particular identified view, the set of metadata information stored in memory associated with the source system; identifying, for each identified view, at least one database table associated with the particular identified view; accessing, for each identified database table associated with each identified view, at least one database table field modified by the transport request and values associated with each of the at least one database table fields, the identified database tables stored in memory associated with the source system; outputting, for each identified view, at least a portion of the set of metadata information describing the structure of the particular identified view to a customizing documentation file; outputting, for each identified database table associated with each identified view, at least a portion of the values associated with each of the at least one database table fields to the customizing documentation file; and transmitting the transport request and the customizing documentation file to the corresponding target system associated with the second instance of the business application.