Patent Document ID: 20120131062
Application ID: 12953976
Patent Status: 0

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 containing information associated with a set of modifications to a business application in a source 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; and 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; and outputting, for each identified view, at least a portion of the set of metadata information describing the structure of the particular identified view; and 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.