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2007
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
HotComments: How to Make Program Comments More Useful?
Program comments have long been used as a common practice for improving inter-programmer communication and code readability, by explicitly specifying programmers' intentions ...
Lin Tan, Ding Yuan, Yuanyuan Zhou
SOSP
2007
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
/*icomment: bugs or bad comments?*/
Commenting source code has long been a common practice in software development. Compared to source code, comments are more direct, descriptive and easy-to-understand. Comments and...
Lin Tan, Ding Yuan, Gopal Krishna, Yuanyuan Zhou
ICSM
2008
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Understanding the rationale for updating a function's comment
Up-to-date comments are critical for the successful evolution of a software application. When modifying a function, developers may update the comment associated with the function ...
Haroon Malik, Istehad Chowdhury, Hsiao-Ming Tsou, ...
OSDI
2004
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
CP-Miner: A Tool for Finding Copy-paste and Related Bugs in Operating System Code
Copy-pasted code is very common in large software because programmers prefer reusing code via copy-paste in order to reduce programming effort. Recent studies show that copy-paste...
Zhenmin Li, Shan Lu, Suvda Myagmar, Yuanyuan Zhou
IJDE
2007
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13 years 4 months ago
Identifying Authorship by Byte-Level N-Grams: The Source Code Author Profile (SCAP) Method
Source code author identification deals with identifying the most likely author of a computer program, given a set of predefined author candidates. There are several scenarios whe...
Georgia Frantzeskou, Efstathios Stamatatos, Stefan...