VI.6 Runtime View

There are no special runtime situations that need to be explained as a sequence diagram. However, the following diagrams shows the flow of information through the toolchain:

Figure 6.13: Runtime view: abstract flow

The preceding figure can be explained as follows:

1. docToolchain exports data (that is, diagram images and plain text) from documentation tools.
2. The main documentation (on the basis of the arc42 template) includes the exported artifacts.
3. The final output is generated via Asciidoctor and plugins.
4. It is finally converted through additional scripts and tools.

Besides this, docToolchain contains some additional utility tasks that do not directly fit into the preceding schema, such as the HtmlSanityCheck task.

The following diagram shows the details of all the currently implemented tasks. It focuses on the various input artifacts, which are transformed through the Gradle tasks that make up docToolchain. Each connection is either a Gradle...