Researchers have recently achieved significant advances in deep learning techniques,
which in turn has substantially advanced other research disciplines, such as natural …

Code comments are important artifacts in software systems and play a paramount role in
many software engineering (SE) tasks related to maintenance and program comprehension …

With the advent of powerful neural language models, AI-based systems to assist developers
in coding tasks are becoming widely available; Copilot is one such system. Copilot uses …

In theory,(good) documentation is an invaluable asset to any software project, as it helps
stakeholders to use, understand, maintain, and evolve a system. In practice, however …

To support software developers in understanding and maintaining programs, various
automatic (source) code summarization techniques have been proposed to generate a …

Several code summarization techniques have been proposed in the literature to
automatically document a code snippet or a function. Ideally, software developers should be …

Code summarization aims at generating a code comment given a block of source code and
it is normally performed by training machine learning algorithms on existing code block …

Software comments sometimes are not promptly updated in sync when the associated code
is changed. The inconsistency between code and comments may mislead the developers …

Abstract Background: Cyber-Physical Systems (CPSs) are systems in which software and
hardware components interact with each other. Understanding the specific nature and root …

Self-admitted technical debt (SATD) consists of annotations, left by developers as comments
in the source code or elsewhere, as a reminder about pieces of software manifesting …