Automatically detecting and describing high level actions within methods

Proceedings - International Conference on Software Engineering

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 101-110

  Sridhara, Giriprasad ^a   Pollock, Lori ^a   Vijay Shanker, K ^a  

^a University of Delaware   (United States)

Author keywords

documentation; program comprehension

Indexed keywords

ABSTRACT CONCEPT; AUTOMATIC TECHNIQUE; CODE FRAGMENTS; HIGH-LEVEL ABSTRACTION; IDENTIFYING CODE; JAVA PROGRAM; JAVA PROGRAMMERS; NATURAL LANGUAGES; PROGRAM COMPREHENSION;

ABSTRACTING; ALGORITHMIC LANGUAGES; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; PROGRAM DOCUMENTATION;

JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE;

EID: 79959898406     PISSN: 02705257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1985793.1985808     Document Type: Conference Paper

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