Commenting source code: is it worth it for small programming tasks?
Sebastian NielebockDariusz KrolikowskiJacob KrügerThomas LeichFrank OrtmeierPublished in: Empir. Softw. Eng. (2019)
Keyphrases
- source code
- open source
- program understanding
- programming course
- software systems
- software maintenance
- software projects
- open source software
- static analysis
- code examples
- code reuse
- software evolution
- open source projects
- programming language
- free software
- mining software repositories
- programs written
- version control
- automated tools
- authorship attribution
- programming language constructs
- linux kernel
- reverse engineer
- symbolic execution
- impact analysis
- object oriented systems
- legacy systems
- execution traces
- maintenance activities
- text files
- program comprehension
- program slicing
- development environment
- integrated development environment
- database applications