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Automatic documentation generation tools, or auto docs, are widely used to visualize information about APIs. However, each auto doc tool comes with its own unique representation of API information. In this paper, I use an information…

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Automated text generation requires a underlying knowledge base from which to generate, which is often difficult to produce. Software documentation is one domain in which parts of this knowledge base may be derived automatically. In this…

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Automated documentation of programming source code is a challenging task with significant practical and scientific implications for the developer community. We present a large language model (LLM)-based application that developers can use…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Sayak Chakrabarty , Souradip Pal

Generating and maintaining API documentation with integrity and consistency can be time-consuming and expensive for evolving APIs. To solve this problem, several approaches have been proposed to automatically generate high-quality API…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-03-24 Shujun Wang , Yongqiang Tian , Dengcheng He

Modern software development requires developers to find and effectively utilize new APIs and their documentation, but documentation has many well-known issues. Despite this, developers eventually overcome these issues but have no way of…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-01-12 Amber Horvath , Michael Xieyang Liu , River Hendriksen , Connor Shannon , Emma Paterson , Kazi Jawad , Andrew Macvean , Brad A. Myers

One of the common problems of system development projects is that the system documentation is often outdated and does not describe the latest version of the system. The situation is even more complicated if we are speaking not about a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2014-04-30 Maria Spichkova , Xiuna Zhu , Dongyue Mou

Machine Learning software documentation is different from most of the documentations that were studied in software engineering research. Often, the users of these documentations are not software experts. The increasing interest in using…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-02-03 Yalda Hashemi , Maleknaz Nayebi , Giuliano Antoniol

The landscape of software development has witnessed a paradigm shift with the advent of AI-powered assistants, exemplified by GitHub Copilot. However, existing solutions are not leveraging all the potential capabilities available in an IDE…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-03-14 Michele Tufano , Anisha Agarwal , Jinu Jang , Roshanak Zilouchian Moghaddam , Neel Sundaresan

Source code documentation is an important artifact for efficient software development. Code documentation could greatly benefit from automation since manual documentation is often labouring, resource and time-intensive. In this paper, we…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Junaed Younus Khan , Gias Uddin

High-quality code documentation is crucial for software development especially in the era of AI. However, generating it automatically using Large Language Models (LLMs) remains challenging, as existing approaches often produce incomplete,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Dayu Yang , Antoine Simoulin , Xin Qian , Xiaoyi Liu , Yuwei Cao , Zhaopu Teng , Grey Yang

An application's user documentation, also referred to as the user manual, is one of the core elements required in application distribution. While there exist many tools to aid an application's developer in creating and maintaining…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2014-11-17 Marco Descher , Thomas Feilhauer , Lucia Amann

Software has eaten the world with many of the necessities and quality of life services people use requiring software. Therefore, tools that improve the software development experience can have a significant impact on the world such as…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-10-18 Nathan Cooper

Software Documentation plays a major role in the usage and development of a project. Widespread adoption of open source software projects contributes to larger and faster development of the projects, making it difficult to maintain the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Akhila Sri Manasa Venigalla , Sridhar Chimalakonda

Documentation debt hinders the effective utilization of open-source software. Although code summarization tools have been helpful for developers, most would prefer a detailed account of each parameter in a function rather than a high-level…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Vatsal Venkatkrishna , Durga Shree Nagabushanam , Emmanuel Iko-Ojo Simon , Melina Vidoni

API documentation is crucial for developers to learn and use APIs. However, it is known that many official API documents are obsolete and incomplete. To address this challenge, we propose a new approach called AutoDoc that generates API…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Bonan Kou , Zijie Zhou , Muhao Chen , Tianyi Zhang

Context: Agile development methodologies in the software industry have increased significantly over the past decade. Although one of the main aspects of agile software development (ASD) is less documentation, there have always been…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Md Athikul Islam , Rizbanul Hasan , Nasir U. Eisty

Writing documentation about software internals is rarely considered a rewarding activity. It is highly time-consuming and the resulting documentation is fragile when the software is continuously evolving in a multi-developer setting.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2013-11-13 Tobias Kuhn , Alexandre Bergel

Automated documentation of programming source code and automated code generation from natural language are challenging tasks of both practical and scientific interest. Progress in these areas has been limited by the low availability of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-07-10 Antonio Valerio Miceli Barone , Rico Sennrich

Source code summarization is a process of generating summaries that describe software code, the majority of source code summarization usually generated manually, where the summaries are written by software developers. Recently, new…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-01-07 Ra'Fat Al-Msie'deen , Anas H. Blasi

Good software documentation encourages good software engineering, but the meaning of "good" documentation is vaguely defined in the software engineering literature. To clarify this ambiguity, we draw on work from the data and information…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-09-09 Christoph Treude , Justin Middleton , Thushari Atapattu
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