Automatically detecting and describing high level actions within methods

Giriprasad Sridhara, Lori L. Pollock, K. Vijay-Shanker

PDF DOI 10.1145/1985793.1985808 dblp

Abstract

One approach to easing program comprehension is to reduce the amount of code that a developer has to read. Describing the high level abstract algorithmic actions associated with code fragments using succinct natural language phrases potentially enables a newcomer to focus on fewer and more abstract concepts when trying to understand a given method. Unfortunately, such descriptions are typically missing because it is tedious to create them manually.

BibTeX

@inproceedings{Sridhara-al:ICSE11,
  author    = {Giriprasad Sridhara and
               Lori L. Pollock and
               K. Vijay{-}Shanker},
  title     = {Automatically detecting and describing high level actions within methods},
  booktitle = {ICSE},
  pages     = {101--110},
  publisher = {{ACM}},
  year      = {2011},
}

Automatically detecting and describing high level actions within methods

Abstract

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