Generating query-specific class API summaries
Abstract
Source code summaries are concise representations, in form of text and/or code, of complex code elements and are meant to help developers gain a quick understanding that in turns help them perform specific tasks. Generation of summaries that are task-specific is still a challenge in the automatic code summarization field. We propose an approach for generating on-demand, extrinsic hybrid summaries for API classes, relevant to a programming task, formulated as a natural language query. The summaries include the most relevant sentences extracted from the API reference documentation and the most relevant methods.
BibTeX
@inproceedings{Liu-al:FSE19,
author = {Mingwei Liu and
Xin Peng and
Andrian Marcus and
Zhenchang Xing and
Wenkai Xie and
Shuangshuang Xing and
Yang Liu},
title = {Generating query-specific class {API} summaries},
booktitle = {{ESEC/SIGSOFT} {FSE}},
pages = {120--130},
publisher = {{ACM}},
year = {2019},
}