5.1Treating Docs Like Software

The docs-as-code approach applies software development practices -- version control, code review, continuous integration, automated testing -- to documentation. Instead of documentation living in a disconnected wiki that rots quietly, it lives alongside the code it describes, goes through the same review process, and is deployed through the same pipeline. For QA teams, this approach is particularly powerful because test documentation, test reports, and quality metrics can be generated, validated, and published automatically.