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Software development is undergoing a fundamental transformation as vibe coding becomes widespread, with large portions of contemporary codebases now being generated by Artificial Intelligence (AI). The disconnect between rapid adoption and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Christian Meske , Tobias Hermanns , Esther von der Weiden , Kai-Uwe Loser , Thorsten Berger

Code review is an important practice in software development, yet it is time-consuming and requires substantial effort. While open-source datasets have been used to train neural models for automating code review tasks, including review…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-02-07 Chunhua Liu , Hong Yi Lin , Patanamon Thongtanunam

Modern code review is a ubiquitous software quality assurance process aimed at identifying potential issues within newly written code. Despite its effectiveness, the process demands large amounts of effort from the human reviewers involved.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Hong Yi Lin , Patanamon Thongtanunam , Christoph Treude , Michael W. Godfrey , Chunhua Liu , Wachiraphan Charoenwet

Comments are an integral part of software development; they are natural language descriptions associated with source code elements. Understanding explicit associations can be useful in improving code comprehensibility and maintaining the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-12-17 Sheena Panthaplackel , Milos Gligoric , Raymond J. Mooney , Junyi Jessy Li

In software development, code comments play a crucial role in enhancing code comprehension and collaboration. This research paper addresses the challenge of objectively classifying code comments as "Useful" or "Not Useful." We propose a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-11-08 Samah Syed , Angel Deborah S

Code review is a crucial component of modern software development, involving the evaluation of code quality, providing feedback on potential issues, and refining the code to address identified problems. Despite these benefits, code review…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Oussama Ben Sghaier , Rosalia Tufano , Gabriele Bavota , Houari Sahraoui

Generative AI is changing the way developers interact with software systems, providing services that can produce and deliver new content, crafted to satisfy the actual needs of developers. For instance, developers can ask for new code…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-02-15 Ionut Daniel Fagadau , Leonardo Mariani , Daniela Micucci , Oliviero Riganelli

Recent advances in large language models have enabled developers to generate software by conversing with artificial intelligence systems rather than writing code directly. This paper introduces vibe coding, an emerging AI-native programming…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Vinay Bamil

Automatically generating concise, informative comments for source code can lighten documentation effort and accelerate program comprehension. Retrieval-augmented approaches first fetch code snippets with existing comments and then…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Tien P. T. Le , Anh M. T. Bui , Huy N. D. Pham , Alessio Bucaioni , Phuong T. Nguyen

A central function of code review is to increase understanding; helping reviewers understand a code change aids in knowledge transfer and finding bugs. Comments in code largely serve a similar purpose, helping future readers understand the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-04-04 Nikitha Rao , Jason Tsay , Martin Hirzel , Vincent J. Hellendoorn

Code comments are important for developers in program comprehension. In scenarios of comprehending and reusing a method, developers expect code comments to provide supplementary information beyond the method signature. However, the extent…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-03-27 Xinglu Pan , Chenxiao Liu , Yanzhen Zou , Tao Xie , Bing Xie

Large language models (LLMs) have shown great potential in automating significant aspects of coding by producing natural code from informal natural language (NL) intent. However, given NL is informal, it does not lend easily to checking…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-10-04 Sarah Fakhoury , Aaditya Naik , Georgios Sakkas , Saikat Chakraborty , Shuvendu K. Lahiri

Automatic news comment generation is a new testbed for techniques of natural language generation. In this paper, we propose a "read-attend-comment" procedure for news comment generation and formalize the procedure with a reading network and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-02 Ze Yang , Can Xu , Wei Wu , Zhoujun Li

Natural language comments convey key aspects of source code such as implementation, usage, and pre- and post-conditions. Failure to update comments accordingly when the corresponding code is modified introduces inconsistencies, which is…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-12-29 Sheena Panthaplackel , Junyi Jessy Li , Milos Gligoric , Raymond J. Mooney

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

While comments are non-functional elements of source code, Large Language Models (LLM) frequently rely on them to perform Software Engineering (SE) tasks. Yet, where in the model this reliance resides, and how it affects performance,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Aaron Imani , Mohammad Moshirpour , Iftekhar Ahmed

For visual content generation, discrepancies between user intentions and the generated content have been a longstanding problem. This discrepancy arises from two main factors. First, user intentions are inherently complex, with subtle…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-22 Yi Cheng , Ziwei Xu , Dongyun Lin , Harry Cheng , Yongkang Wong , Ying Sun , Joo Hwee Lim , Mohan Kankanhalli

With the rapid growth of the developer community, the amount of posts on online technical forums has been growing rapidly, which poses difficulties for users to filter useful posts and find important information. Tags provide a concise…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-04-11 Xingfang Wu , Eric Laufer , Heng Li , Foutse Khomh , Santhosh Srinivasan , Jayden Luo

Machine-generated citation sentences can aid automated scientific literature review and assist article writing. Current methods in generating citation text were limited to single citation generation using the citing document and a cited…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-10 Jia-Yan Wu , Alexander Te-Wei Shieh , Shih-Ju Hsu , Yun-Nung Chen

Commit messages record code changes (e.g., feature modifications and bug repairs) in natural language, and are useful for program comprehension. Due to the frequent updates of software and time cost, developers are generally unmotivated to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-11-12 Shangqing Liu , Cuiyun Gao , Sen Chen , Lun Yiu Nie , Yang Liu