A Survey on Research of Code Comment Auto Generation
Lele Zhao, Liping Zhang, Sheng Yan · Journal of Physics Conference Series · 2019
Abstract A code comment is an explanation of the code. As an important part of software development process, code comment plays an important role in software maintenance, software reuse and other fields. Automatic generation of code comment aims to study the automatic method of comment generation so as to improve the efficiency of software development. This paper summarizes the related concepts and researches of code comment, discusses the automatic generation technology of code comment and the evaluation of comment quality, introduces the application of code comment generation in the software domain, and finally analyzes the challenges of automatic generation of code comment, and looks forward to the future research in this field.