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OOPSLA
2009
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
The commenting practice of open source
The development processes of open source software are different from traditional closed source development processes. Still, open source software is frequently of high quality. Th...
Oliver Arafat, Dirk Riehle
HOTOS
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
WCRE
2007
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Do Code and Comments Co-Evolve? On the Relation between Source Code and Comment Changes
Comments are valuable especially for program understanding and maintenance, but do developers comment their code? To which extent do they add comments or adapt them when they evol...
Beat Fluri, Michael Würsch, Harald Gall
ICSE
2009
IEEE-ACM
13 years 11 months ago
The comment density of open source software code
Oliver Arafat, Dirk Riehle
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