Impact of Limited Memory Resources

Binkley, David; Lawrie, Dawn; Maex, S.; Morrell, Christopher H.

doi:10.1109/icpc.2008.31

Cited by 7 publications

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“…A paper is deprecated if it was extended by another paper that we selected. For instance, the paper of Binkley et al (2008) was extended in a subsequent paper (Binkley et al, 2009). In this case, we consider the former to be deprecated and only take the latter into account.…”

Section: Study Quality Assessmentmentioning

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A Systematic Literature Review on the Impact of Formatting Elements on Program Understandability

Oliveira¹,

Bruno²,

Madeiral³

et al. 2022

SSRN Journal

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Section: Study Quality Assessmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Systematic Literature Review on the Impact of Formatting Elements on Program Understandability

Oliveira¹,

Bruno²,

Madeiral³

et al. 2022

SSRN Journal

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“…In spite of numerous studies demonstrating the utility of comments for understanding and analyzing software [97-99, 101, 105], few software projects adequately document the code to reduce future maintenance costs [44,90]. Lack of comments may be fine when programmers use descriptive identifier names [27]; however, precise identifiers that accurately describe an entity lead to very long identifier names [9,53], which can actually reduce code readability, Another way is to encourage the developer to write comments (1) by automatically prompting the developer to enter them [21,79], or, (2) by using a top-down design paradigm and generating comments directly from the specification [84], or, (3) by using a documentation-first approach to development [45]. Although these solutions can be used to comment newly created systems, they are not suitable for existing legacy systems.…”

Section: Comment Generationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Natural Language-Based Software Analyses and Tools for Software Maintenance

Pollock

Vijay‐Shanker

Hill

et al. 2013

Software Engineering

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Significant portions of software life cycle resources are devoted to program maintenance, which motivates the development of automated techniques and tools to support the tedious, error-prone tasks. Natural language clues from programmers' naming in literals, identifiers, and comments can be leveraged to improve the effectiveness of many software tools. For example, they can be used to increase the accuracy of software search tools, improve the ability of program navigation tools to recommend related methods, and raise the accuracy of other program analyses by providing access to natural language information. This chapter focuses on how to capture, model, and apply the programmers' conceptual knowledge expressed in both linguistic information as well as programming language structure and semantics. We call this kind of analysis Natural Language Program Analysis (NLPA) since it combines natural language processing techniques with program analysis to extract information for analysis of the source program.

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“…Unfortunately, studies suggest that precise identifiers that accurately describe an entity lead to very long identifier names which hinder code readability [9], [17].…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

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Generating Parameter Comments and Integrating with Method Summaries

Sridhara

Pollock

Vijay‐Shanker

2011

2011 IEEE 19th International Conference on Program Comprehension

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Abstract-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, developers should write a summary of the method's actions followed by comments for each parameter. In this paper, we describe a novel technique to automatically generate descriptive comments for parameters of Java methods. Such generated comments can help alleviate the lack of developerwritten parameter comments. In addition, they can help a programmer in ensuring that a parameter comment is current with the code. We present heuristics to generate comments that provide a high-level overview of the role of a parameter in a method. We ensure that sufficient context is provided such that a developer can understand the role of the parameter in achieving the computational intent of the method. In the opinion of nine experienced developers, the automatically generated parameter comments for methods are accurate and provide a quick synopsis of the role of the parameter in achieving the desired functionality of the method.

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Impact of Limited Memory Resources

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Cited by 7 publications

References 9 publications

A Systematic Literature Review on the Impact of Formatting Elements on Program Understandability

A Systematic Literature Review on the Impact of Formatting Elements on Program Understandability

Natural Language-Based Software Analyses and Tools for Software Maintenance

Generating Parameter Comments and Integrating with Method Summaries

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