Source code analysis extractive approach to generate textual summary
Nowadays, obtain program features becomes a hot issue in source code comprehension. A large amount of efforts spent on source code understanding and comprehension to develop or maintain it. As a matter of fact, developers need a solution to rapidly detect which program functional need to revise. Hen...
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| author | Dawood, Kareem Abbas Sharif, Khaironi Yatim Koh, Tieng Wei |
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| description | Nowadays, obtain program features becomes a hot issue in source code comprehension. A large amount of efforts spent on source code understanding and comprehension to develop or maintain it. As a matter of fact, developers need a solution to rapidly detect which program functional need to revise. Hence, many studies in this field are concentrating on text mining techniques to take out the data by source code analysis and generate a code summary. However, in this paper, we attempt to overcome this problem by propose a new approach (Abstract Syntax Tree with predefined natural language text Template (AST-W-PDT)) to generates human readable summaries for Java methods role. This paper describes how we developed a tool that the java source code can be summarized from the methods role. In evaluating our approach, we found that the automatically generated summary from a java class 1) is helpful to the developers in order to understand the role of the methods and will be useful, and 2) the automatically generated summary is precise. |
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| spelling | upm-632652018-09-26T02:29:24Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/63265/ Source code analysis extractive approach to generate textual summary Dawood, Kareem Abbas Sharif, Khaironi Yatim Koh, Tieng Wei Nowadays, obtain program features becomes a hot issue in source code comprehension. A large amount of efforts spent on source code understanding and comprehension to develop or maintain it. As a matter of fact, developers need a solution to rapidly detect which program functional need to revise. Hence, many studies in this field are concentrating on text mining techniques to take out the data by source code analysis and generate a code summary. However, in this paper, we attempt to overcome this problem by propose a new approach (Abstract Syntax Tree with predefined natural language text Template (AST-W-PDT)) to generates human readable summaries for Java methods role. This paper describes how we developed a tool that the java source code can be summarized from the methods role. In evaluating our approach, we found that the automatically generated summary from a java class 1) is helpful to the developers in order to understand the role of the methods and will be useful, and 2) the automatically generated summary is precise. Asian Research Publication Network 2017 Article PeerReviewed text en http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/63265/1/Source%20code%20analysis%20extractive%20approach%20to%20generate%20textual%20summary%20.pdf Dawood, Kareem Abbas and Sharif, Khaironi Yatim and Koh, Tieng Wei (2017) Source code analysis extractive approach to generate textual summary. Journal of Theoretical and Applied Information Technology, 95 (21). 5765 - 5777. ISSN 1992-8645; ESSN: 1817-3195 |
| spellingShingle | Dawood, Kareem Abbas Sharif, Khaironi Yatim Koh, Tieng Wei Source code analysis extractive approach to generate textual summary |
| title | Source code analysis extractive approach to generate textual summary |
| title_full | Source code analysis extractive approach to generate textual summary |
| title_fullStr | Source code analysis extractive approach to generate textual summary |
| title_full_unstemmed | Source code analysis extractive approach to generate textual summary |
| title_short | Source code analysis extractive approach to generate textual summary |
| title_sort | source code analysis extractive approach to generate textual summary |
| url | http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/63265/ http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/63265/1/Source%20code%20analysis%20extractive%20approach%20to%20generate%20textual%20summary%20.pdf |