Summarizing Services of Java Packages

Program comprehension is essential for code maintenance and evolution activities. It saves time and efforts of developers who want to perform any code changes. It also minimizes the chances of introducing bugs. Textual summaries for source code provide great help to code understanding activities. This paper presents an approach to automatically generate textual summaries for services implemented in java packages. The summary is generated by analyzing the source code of methods defined the package. Each method represents a service provide by the package. Each service is summarized as a natural language textual description.

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Resource Details

Provided by:
Lecture Notes on Software Engineering (LNSE)
Topic:
Software
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