Code commenting is a common programming practice of practical importance to help
developers review and comprehend source code. In our developer survey, commenting has …

Code commenting is a common programming practice of practical importance to help
developers review and comprehend source code. However, there is a lack of thorough …

Code comments convey information about the programmers' intention in a more explicit but
less rigorous manner than source code. This information can assist programmers in various …

Existing techniques for automatic code commenting assume that the code snippet to be
commented has been identified, thus requiring users to provide the code snippet in …

Appropriate comments of code snippets provide insight for code functionality, which are
helpful for program comprehension. However, due to the great cost of authoring with the …

Existing automatic code comment generators mainly focus on producing a general
description of functionality for a given code snippet without considering developer intentions …

Programmers should write code comments, but not on every line of code. We have created a
machine learning model that suggests locations where a programmer should write a code …

Approaches to evaluate comments based on whether they increase code comprehensibility
for software maintenance tasks are important, but largely missing. We propose Comment P …

Code comments are significantly helpful in comprehending software programs and also aid
developers to save a great deal of time in software maintenance. Code comment generation …

Source code commenting is a common practice to improve code comprehension in software
development. While comments often consist of descriptive natural language, surprisingly …