Automated documentation of Android apps
Informazioni aggiuntive
Tipo
Articolo pubblicato in rivista scientifica
Anno
2021
Lingua
Inglese
Sommario
Developers do not always have the knowledge needed to understand source code and must refer to different resources (e.g., teammates, documentation, the web). This non-trivial process, called program comprehension, is very time-consuming. While many approaches support the comprehension of a given code at hand, they are mostly focused on defining extractive summaries from the code (i.e., on selecting from a given piece of code the most important statements/comments to comprehend it). However, if the information needed to comprehend the code is not there, their usefulness is limited. We present ADANA, an approach to automatically inject comments describing a given piece of Android code. ADANA reuses the descriptions of similar and well-documented code snippets retrieved from various online resources. Our evaluation has shown that ADANA is able to aid the program comprehension process.
Parole chiave
Program comprehension, Documentation, Android
Periodico
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Volume
47
Numero ( Mese )
1
Pagine (o numero dell’articolo)
204-220
Diffusione
Licenza
Licenza non definita
Visibilità
Pubblico
Status open access
Green
