Open AccessA Survey on Research of Code Comment Auto Generation
Author(s) -
Lele Zhao,
Liping Zhang,
Sheng Yan
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
journal of physics. conference series
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.21
H-Index - 85
eISSN - 1742-6596
pISSN - 1742-6588
DOI - 10.1088/1742-6596/1345/3/032010
Subject(s) - computer science , software engineering , kpi driven code analysis , code review , static program analysis , code (set theory) , code generation , software development , software , software quality , domain (mathematical analysis) , field (mathematics) , software evolution , reuse , code reuse , software construction , programming language , engineering , computer security , key (lock) , mathematical analysis , mathematics , set (abstract data type) , pure mathematics , waste management
A code comment is an explanation of the code. As an important part of software development process, code comment plays an important role in software maintenance, software reuse and other fields. Automatic generation of code comment aims to study the automatic method of comment generation so as to improve the efficiency of software development. This paper summarizes the related concepts and researches of code comment, discusses the automatic generation technology of code comment and the evaluation of comment quality, introduces the application of code comment generation in the software domain, and finally analyzes the challenges of automatic generation of code comment, and looks forward to the future research in this field.