Suboptimal Comments in Java Projects: From Independent Comment Changes to Commenting Practices
Chao Wang, Hao He, Uma Pal, Darko Marinov, Minghui Zhou
2022
ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology
We name such source code comments as suboptimal comments. Such suboptimal comments create challenges in code comprehension and maintenance. ...
High-quality source code comments are valuable for software development and maintenance, however, code often contains low-quality comments or lacks them altogether. ...
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS We thank Milos Gligoric, Haiqiao Gu, Pengcheng Li, Zanpeng Ma, Pengyu Nie, Xin Tan, and Yuxia Zhang for piloting our survey/questionnaire, and Julia Rubin for comments on a paper draft. ...
doi:10.1145/3546949
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