AI-Assisted Writing of Technical Documentation
Summary
TLDRThis video explores the innovative use of AI in creating technical documentation within Formwork, a proclaimed best-in-class EQMS software. The narrator demonstrates how AI can automatically generate software requirements and tests for a DICOM viewer, a medical software for radiologists. By using a magical 'Auto generate' feature, Formwork efficiently drafts software requirements and test cases, significantly reducing the time and effort typically required. The process, which traditionally takes days or months, is accomplished in minutes, showcasing AI's potential to revolutionize technical documentation. The video concludes by highlighting Formwork Pro, a premium version of the software, inviting viewers to explore this advanced feature through a free trial or purchase.
Takeaways
- 😊 The speaker is very enthusiastic about Formwork software and its ability to auto-generate technical documentation
- 👨💻 Formwork allows users to easily create products and draft software requirements specifications
- 🔨 The auto-generate feature in Formwork can quickly produce an initial draft of software requirements
- 📝 Formwork automatically assigns IDs and saves generated software requirements
- ✏️ The software can also auto-generate descriptions for requirements with some customization needed
- 🧪 Formwork can generate linked test cases directly from requirements with a few clicks
- ⏱ The speaker emphasizes how Formwork can reduce documentation time from weeks/months to minutes
- 💰Professional documentation using consultants can be expensive, Formwork makes it more efficient
- 🔎 The example shown is for a DICOM medical image viewer and related documentation
- 💳 There is a free version of Formwork but auto-generation features need the paid pro version
Q & A
What software does the speaker showcase to generate technical documentation?
-The speaker showcases Formwork, their EQMS software, to automatically generate technical documentation like software requirements and test specifications.
What product does the speaker create in Formwork to demonstrate the auto-generation capability?
-The speaker creates a sample DICOM Viewer product in Formwork to demonstrate how it can auto-generate software requirements and tests.
How does Formwork auto-generate the software requirements?
-Formwork has an 'Auto Generate' button that when clicked, automatically drafts relevant software requirements based on the product's intended use description provided by the user.
What does the speaker do after Formwork auto-generates the software requirements?
-The speaker reviews the auto-generated requirements, makes minor edits where needed, saves them and allows Formwork to assign unique IDs to each.
How does Formwork auto-generate software tests?
-The user selects a software requirement first and then clicks the 'Auto Generate' button. Formwork automatically creates a draft test case including title, description and steps derived from that requirement.
What additional capabilities does Formwork have beyond auto-generation?
-Formwork allows exporting all the requirements and linked test cases to a spreadsheet. It also has a free version with limited features and paid pro versions with advanced capabilities.
What types of images can the sample DICOM Viewer display?
-According to the auto-generated requirements, the DICOM Viewer should be able to display DICOM images, render 3D images from DICOM and potentially compare DICOM images.
What interactive capabilities are mentioned for the DICOM Viewer?
-The requirements state the Viewer should enable rotating, zooming, measuring distances and angles within displayed DICOM images.
What export capability is auto-generated for the sample Viewer?
-One of the software requirements is that the Viewer should be able to export displayed DICOM images.
Does the speaker think the auto-generated documentation is perfect?
-No, the speaker acknowledges the drafts have some imperfections but believes they provide a strong starting point that can be easily edited to create high quality requirements and tests.
Outlines
🤓 AI-generated software requirements specification
This paragraph discusses using AI to automatically generate a software requirements specification for a DICOM viewer medical software. It shows creating the product in Formwork EQMS software, writing an intended use, and then using the auto-generate feature to quickly create an initial set of software requirements like displaying images, measurements, and more.
👩💻 Effortless creation of software tests
This paragraph explores how Formwork can also auto-generate software tests linked to the created software requirements. It shows an example test for verifying DICOM image display and how while not perfect, it provides a great draft that can save vast amounts of manual effort and consultant fees.
Mindmap
Keywords
💡documentation
💡requirements
💡tests
💡audit/export
💡automation
💡formwork
💡DICOM
💡medical device
💡specification
💡parameters
Highlights
Formwork software auto-generates technical documentation in minutes instead of days or weeks
Created a sample DICOM viewer product and used auto-generate to draft initial software requirements
Auto-generated requirements look credible and save time - generated 15 credible requirements in minutes
Auto-generated requirement descriptions may still need some editing but provide a great starting point
Also auto-generated an initial test case linked to a requirement, with title, description and steps
The auto-generated test draft isn't perfect but did more in 5 seconds than hours of manual effort
Auto-generated documentation saves enormous time and cost compared to hiring consultants
Exported software requirements and traceability to tests enables audit and documentation
Formwork has free and paid versions - the auto-gen documentation is in the Formwork Pro paid version
Formwork Pro pricing starts at $25/month with free trials available to try the features
Auto-generating documentation could let teams focus more on development than manual paperwork
Auto-generated drafts still require human review but vastly accelerate the documentation process
This technology could let medical device companies speed compliant software to market
Auto-generating documentation may enable more agile processes rather than waterfall methods
AI-generated drafts empower professionals to be more productive on high-value tasks
Transcripts
can AI write your technical
documentation that's the question we
asked ourselves when we try to build
this and let's have a look at the
results I think they're really
incredible but you should have a look
for yourself
now if we go into formwork our eqms
software which is
um the best software on the planet in my
opinion
we navigate to the tech talk section
because we want to create technical
documentation right so we have to create
a product for that first okay let's
create a product here name for the
product let's actually create a dicom
viewer because I don't know everyone
knows.com viewers
and then now we need to write a short
intended use to actually be able to
automatically generate things how about
medical software
software for Radiologists
already
distribute icon images
all right
save it and now I won't go into too much
detail into how formwork uh how it works
and all the other cool features which it
has suffice to say it's really awesome
and it's really intuitive and you can
document everything in here
now we go to software requirements and
create a new requirement and how do we
typically create software requirements
well each software requirement should
kind of just describe what the software
does kind of like a specification model
so you would maybe have one and say well
it can display diagram images you would
have another one which would say I can
zoom and pan in the image that sort of
stuff so usually we would write these
requirements manually and it would be
very cumbersome because you like you
have to type all of these right so the
question is can we automatically
generate these requirements instead
let's just have a look so oh wait that's
the magical Auto generate button that
has a magical one next to it and it
glows when we hover over it yes we have
to hit this button all right so now we
have the auto generate feature for
software requirements let's just start
Auto generating and see how the results
look like and what's going to happen
all right so exciting hmm oh farmwork
actually just wrote software
requirements for us all right so the
first one is the software shall be able
to display diagram images perfect let's
just save that oh and you see formwork
already assigned a unique Adidas
requirement and saved it great should be
able to render 3D images from dicam
images well that's typically many Die
con views can actually do that so let's
save that the software shall be able to
store them yeah I guess so
few images in full size sounds good
rotate and zoom oh yeah we actually just
just talked about that feature right
measure distances and angles yeah sounds
good too compared item images yeah maybe
that's a bit of an advanced feature
check user activity makes sense
communication blah blah blah export
images oh yeah let's let's take the
export images one two
all right and there we have it so we
automatically just drafted our software
requirement specification and all of
these software requirements have already
been saved and have a unique ID so if
you don't think this is incredible I
don't know I don't know what would be
but I think this is really really cool
right we drafted the software
requirement specification and I don't
know three minutes instead of like days
weeks or even months with Consultants I
think that's really really exciting
now how does this requirement
specification look like right so now we
have all these requirements saved up
let's actually look at one of these
requirements let's open how about just
the first one software should be able to
display diagram images all right let's
edit this and have a look so what would
we need to flesh this out a bit the auto
generation it just wrote the title for
us but the description is still missing
don't be shouldn't we be writing a
description uh it sounds super painful I
mean it's just kind of like flashing out
the title and a lot of it is kind of
like redundant can we Auto generate this
oh yes right we can we just hit the
magical Auto generate button oh it glows
when I go over it just hit it
generating what's going to happen next
oh it wrote the description for me all
right the stuff I shall be able to
display diagram images in the
user-friendly Mana blah blah blah blah I
mean to be fair most software
requirement descriptions are just like
blah blah anyway and I think this is
like this is still above average based
on all the technical documentations
which I've seen so yeah I think this
looks pretty good let's just save it
and there we have it a software
requirement is done how long did that
take us like another 30 seconds or so I
think this is really really cool great
all right so now we've written our
software requirements and of course this
is not completely done yet but the next
step now would be to write software
tests so how would we typically write
software test and formwork or in general
for medical device software so go to
software tests new then you have you
have to create a title for test and in
our case
keeping this dicom reading software
requirement in mind the test title would
be like yeah read the dicom file
describe the test briefly and then the
steps would be like I don't know read a
file and the expected results would be
okay well the the file is read correctly
and it's displayed correctly
yeah this sounds like super painful I
mean this is just like manual work for
which you pay Consultants like us a ton
of money which just doesn't really make
a lot of sense in many cases right can
we Auto generate this too oh wait let's
navigate back oh yes that's the magical
Auto generate button it also is uh it's
also here for software tests right so
let's just hit Auto generate
all right now it asks me about the
software requirement to generate them
for so yeah we just talked about
software requirement one right let's
just take that hit Auto generate and see
what firmware comes up with uh right now
so
so exciting all right uh perfect it
filled out everything title is verifying
diagram image display description
testing their ability to display diagram
images sounds good to me oh look we even
have the steps and the expected results
I think this is incredible right we have
like step one note the dicom image
expect the result one images correctly
rendered step two verifies correctly
rendered two it's accurate three apply
transformations
three transformation cycled now is this
perfect obviously it's not it kind of
like it kind of like bunched up a couple
of things here right like it just like
added like a window Wing test here and
uh even though windowing really wasn't
like part of just verifying the right
display but I mean it is still like
crazy right we automatically wrote and
drafted a test in like I don't know five
seconds and now it's just up to us to
like just like change this draft a bit
and fix it oh and by the way
from work already correctly linked up
this software test to the software
requirement we specified earlier so if
you would want to export this now you
could just head over to audit export and
Export your software requirement
specification as a spreadsheet and all
of that would already be in there and
linked correctly
so there you have it I think that's
super exciting now we're able to draft
technical documentation in what minutes
instead of days weeks months so this is
really really cool and I really look
forward to what people are going to
build with this that being said it's a
formal Pro feature so formwork has a
free version and it has a paid version
from a pro being one of the paid
versions if you're interested in trying
this out message me I'll give you a free
trial or just head over to our website
and purchase from work pro and maybe
you're excited just excited as I am to
see what's possible with this author
generation feature
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