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Encountering outdated documentation is not a rare occurrence for developers and users in the software engineering community. To ensure that software documentation is up-to-date, developers often have to manually check whether the…

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This paper surveys the current state of the art in document automation (DA). The objective of DA is to reduce the manual effort during the generation of documents by automatically creating and integrating input from different sources and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Mohammad Ahmadi Achachlouei , Omkar Patil , Tarun Joshi , Vijayan N. Nair

Code documentation is essential to improve software maintainability and comprehension. The tedious nature of manual code documentation has led to much research on automated documentation generation. Existing automated approaches primarily…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-19 Swapnil Sharma Sarker , Tanzina Taher Ifty

TECHDOC is an implemented system demonstrating the feasibility of generating multilingual technical documents on the basis of a language-independent knowledge base. Its application domain is user and maintenance instructions, which are…

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Building of tools--from simple prototypes to industrial-strength applications--is a pervasive activity in academic research. When proposing a new technique for software maintenance, effective tool support is typically required to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2008-08-05 Holger M. Kienle , Hausi A. Müller

Programming language documentation refers to the set of technical documents that provide application developers with a description of the high-level concepts of a language. Such documentation is essential to support application developers…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Filipe R. Cogo , Xin Xia , Ahmed E. Hassan

Background: Good API documentation facilities the development process, improving productivity and quality. While the topic of API documentation quality has been of interest for the last two decades, there have been few studies to map the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-08-01 Alex Cummaudo , Rajesh Vasa , John Grundy

To address intricate real-world tasks, there has been a rising interest in tool utilization in applications of large language models (LLMs). To develop LLM-based agents, it usually requires LLMs to understand many tool functions from…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-28 Siyu Yuan , Kaitao Song , Jiangjie Chen , Xu Tan , Yongliang Shen , Ren Kan , Dongsheng Li , Deqing Yang

Foundation models, such as large language models (LLMs), have the potential to streamline evaluation workflows and improve their performance. However, practical adoption faces challenges, such as customisability, accuracy, and scalability.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Hao Zhang , Qinghua Lu , Liming Zhu

Code completion is a popular software development tool integrated into all major IDEs. Many neural language models have achieved promising results in completion suggestion prediction on synthetic benchmarks. However, a recent study When…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-11-10 Gareth Ari Aye , Seohyun Kim , Hongyu Li

Code reviews are popular in both industrial and open source projects. The benefits of code reviews are widely recognized and include better code quality and lower likelihood of introducing bugs. However, since code review is a manual…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-05-20 Rosalia Tufano , Luca Pascarella , Michele Tufano , Denys Poshyvanyk , Gabriele Bavota

Software developers maintain extensive mental models of code they produce and its context, often relying on memory to retrieve or reconstruct design decisions, edge cases, and debugging experiences. These missing links and data obstruct…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Edward Misback , Erik Vank , Zachary Tatlock , Steven Tanimoto

Documenting frameworks provides its users and maintainers useful information on that software's architecture, design, and customization. Despite documentation's importance, the process of creating and maintaining it is considered to imply…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-03-29 João Santos , Filipe Correia

Usually, programming languages have official documentation to guide developers with APIs, methods, and classes. However, researchers identified insufficient or inadequate documentation examples and flaws with the API's complex structure as…

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This paper surveys the current state of the art in document automation (DA). The objective of DA is to reduce the manual effort during the generation of documents by automatically integrating input from different sources and assembling…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-27 Mohammad Ahmadi Achachlouei , Omkar Patil , Tarun Joshi , Vijayan N. Nair

In our research, we investigate the challenges that software engineers face during program comprehension, particularly when debugging unfamiliar codebases. We propose a novel tool, CodeCompass, to address these issues. Our study highlights…

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DevOps can be best explained as people working together to conceive, build and deliver secure software at top speed. DevOps practices enable software development (dev) and operations (ops) teams to accelerate delivery through automation,…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Ganesh Neelakanta Iyer , Andrew Goh Yisheng , Metilda Chee Heng Er , Weng Xian Choong , Shao Wei Koh

Business documents come in a variety of structures, formats and information needs which makes information extraction a challenging task. Due to these variations, having a document generic model which can work well across all types of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-10 Neelesh K Shukla , Msp Raja , Raghu Katikeri , Amit Vaid

Augmenting large language models (LLMs) with external tools has emerged as a promising approach to extend their utility, enabling them to solve practical tasks. Previous methods manually parse tool documentation and create in-context…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Zhengliang Shi , Shen Gao , Lingyong Yan , Yue Feng , Xiuyi Chen , Zhumin Chen , Dawei Yin , Suzan Verberne , Zhaochun Ren