Studies have shown that good comments can help programmers quickly understand what a
method does, aiding program comprehension and software maintenance. Unfortunately, few …

Identifiers, such as method and variable names, form a large portion of source code.
Therefore, low-quality identifiers can substantially hinder code comprehension. To support …

Application Programming Interface (API) documents are a typical way of describing legal
usage of reusable software libraries, thus facilitating software reuse. However, even with …

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 …

The location of the author of a social media message is not invariably the same as the
location that the author writes about in the message. In applications that mine these …

Automated software engineering tools (eg, program search, concern location, code reuse,
quality assessment, etc.) increasingly rely on natural language information from comments …

Automated test generation tools have been widely investigated with the goal of reducing the
cost of testing activities. However, generated tests have been shown not to help developers …

Just like parallel processing elements can substantially speed up computationally intensive
tasks, concurrent transfer of data in and out of memory can speed up data intensive tasks. In …

In this paper, we describe a novel unsupervised approach for detecting, classifying, and
tracing non-functional software requirements (NFRs). The proposed approach exploits the …

An important part of the leading comments for a method are the comments for the formal
parameters of the method. According to the Java documentation writing guidelines …