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Automation of code reviews using AI models has garnered substantial attention in the software engineering community as a strategy to reduce the cost and effort associated with traditional peer review processes. These models are typically…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-04-24 Leonardo Centellas-Claros , Juan J. Alonso-Lecaros , Juan Pablo Sandoval Alcocer , Andres Neyem

Code review is an essential activity for ensuring the quality and maintainability of software projects. However, it is a time-consuming and often error-prone task that can significantly impact the development process. Recently, ChatGPT, a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-09-18 Qi Guo , Junming Cao , Xiaofei Xie , Shangqing Liu , Xiaohong Li , Bihuan Chen , Xin Peng

The advent of large language models (LLMs) has ushered in a new era in automated code translation across programming languages. Since most code-specific LLMs are pretrained on well-commented code from large repositories like GitHub, it is…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-26 Monika Gupta , Ajay Meena , Anamitra Roy Choudhury , Vijay Arya , Srikanta Bedathur

Code comments are the primary means to document implementation and facilitate program comprehension. Thus, their quality should be a primary concern to improve program maintenance. While much effort has been dedicated to detecting bad…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-08-26 Arianna Blasi , Nataliia Stulova , Alessandra Gorla , Oscar Nierstrasz

Textual content is often the output of a collaborative writing process: We start with an initial draft, ask for suggestions, and repeatedly make changes. Agnostic of this process, today's language models are trained to generate only the…

Large Language Models (LLMs)-powered code review automation has the potential to transform code review workflows. Despite the advances of LLM-powered code review comment generation approaches, several practical challenges remain for…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Kla Tantithamthavorn , Yaotian Zou , Andy Wong , Michael Gupta , Zhe Wang , Mike Buller , Ryan Jiang , Matthew Watson , Minwoo Jeong , Kun Chen , Ming Wu

Code review generation can reduce developer effort by producing concise, reviewer-style feedback for a given code snippet or code change. However, generation-only models often produce generic or off-point reviews, while retrieval-only…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Qianru Meng , Xiao Zhang , Zhaochen Ren , Joost Visser

The rapid adoption of AI powered coding assistants like ChatGPT and other coding copilots is transforming programming education, raising questions about assessment practices, academic integrity, and skill development. As educators seek…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Santiago Berrezueta-Guzman , Stephan Krusche , Stefan Wagner

Existing automatic code comment generators mainly focus on producing a general description of functionality for a given code snippet without considering developer intentions. However, in real-world practice, comments are complicated, which…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-02-15 Fangwen Mu , Xiao Chen , Lin Shi , Song Wang , Qing Wang

Inline comments in the source code facilitate easy comprehension, reusability, and enhanced readability. However, code snippets in answers on Q&A sites like Stack Overflow (SO) often lack comments because answerers volunteer their time and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-08-29 Suborno Deb Bappon , Saikat Mondal , Banani Roy

Automated compilation error repair, the problem of suggesting fixes to buggy programs that fail to compile, has generated significant interest in recent years. Apart from being a tool of general convenience, automated code repair has…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-05-29 Darshak Chhatbar , Umair Z. Ahmed , Purushottam Kar

Comments, or natural language descriptions of source code, are standard practice among software developers. By communicating important aspects of the code such as functionality and usage, comments help with software project maintenance.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-08-01 Theo Steiner , Rui Zhang

User stories are widely applied for conveying requirements within agile software development teams. Multiple user story quality guidelines exist, but authors like Product Owners in industry projects frequently fail to write high-quality…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Daniel Hallmann , Kerstin Jacob , Gerald Lüttgen , Ute Schmid , Rüdiger von der Weth

A major challenge in the field of Text Generation is evaluation: Human evaluations are cost-intensive, and automated metrics often display considerable disagreement with human judgments. In this paper, we propose a statistical model of Text…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Jan Deriu , Pius von Däniken , Don Tuggener , Mark Cieliebak

While existing code large language models (code LLMs) exhibit impressive capabilities in code generation, their autoregressive sequential generation inherently lacks reversibility. This limitation hinders them from timely correcting…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-26 Mouxiang Chen , Hao Tian , Zhongxin Liu , Xiaoxue Ren , Jianling Sun

Large Language Models (LLMs) offer novel opportunities for educational applications that have the potential to transform traditional learning for students. Despite AI-enhanced applications having the potential to provide personalized…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Xiaotian Su , Thiemo Wambsganss , Roman Rietsche , Seyed Parsa Neshaei , Tanja Käser

Code review is one of the key processes in the software development lifecycle and is essential to maintain code quality. However, manual code review is subjective and time consuming. Given its rule-based nature, code review is well suited…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Busra Icoz , Goksel Biricik

Commit message is a document that summarizes source code changes in natural language. A good commit message clearly shows the source code changes, so this enhances collaboration between developers. Therefore, our work is to develop a model…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Tae-Hwan Jung

Issue tracking systems are used in the software industry for the facilitation of maintenance activities that keep the software robust and up to date with ever-changing industry requirements. Usually, users report issues that can be…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-02-16 Anas Nadeem , Muhammad Usman Sarwar , Muhammad Zubair Malik

This paper introduces REVA, a human-AI system that expedites instructor review of voluminous AI-generated programming feedback by sequencing submissions to minimize cognitive context shifts and propagating instructor-driven revisions across…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Xiaohang Tang , Sam Wong , Zicheng He , Yalong Yang , Yan Chen