CloCom

This research project proposes a new automatic comment generation approach, which mines comments from existing software repositories.

Publication

- Edmund Wong, Taiyue Liu, Lin Tan, CloCom: Mining Existing Source Code for Automatic Comment Generation", International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution, and Reengineering (SANER) 2015
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Data Source

GitHub

Source Code

We made our tool open source. It is a standalone source code clone detection tool with the ability to map code segments to code comments.

https://github.com/e32wong/clocom

Classification Results

Google Sheet

Generated Comments

Project Set 1:

• FreeCol
• FreeMind
• GanttProject
• Hibernate
• HSQLDB
• JabRef
• Jajuk
• JavaHMO
• JBidWatcher
• JFtp
• JHotDraw
• MegaMek
• Planeta
• Sweet Home 3D
• Vuze

Project Set 2:

• JDK
• DNSJava
• Antlr
• ArgoUML
• Ant
• carol

Comments Reported to Developers

• HSQLDB (Replied)
• Sweet Home 3D (Replied)
• Ant
• ArgoUML
• FreeCol
• JabRef
• Jajuk
• JDK
• MegaMek
• Vuze

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