[HTML][HTML] A decade of code comment quality assessment: A systematic literature review

P Rani, A Blasi, N Stulova, S Panichella, A Gorla… - Journal of Systems and …, 2023 - Elsevier
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 …

Automating just-in-time comment updating

Z Liu, X **a, M Yan, S Li - Proceedings of the 35th IEEE/ACM …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
Code comments are valuable for program comprehension and software maintenance, and
also require maintenance with code evolution. However, when changing code, developers …

Where Are Large Language Models for Code Generation on GitHub?

X Yu, L Liu, X Hu, JW Keung, J Liu, X **a - arxiv preprint arxiv:2406.19544, 2024 - arxiv.org
The increasing use of Large Language Models (LLMs) in software development has
garnered significant attention from researchers assessing the quality of the code they …

[HTML][HTML] How to identify class comment types? A multi-language approach for class comment classification

P Rani, S Panichella, M Leuenberger… - Journal of systems and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Most software maintenance and evolution tasks require developers to understand the
source code of their software systems. Software developers usually inspect class comments …

Automating the removal of obsolete TODO comments

Z Gao, X **a, D Lo, J Grundy… - Proceedings of the 29th …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
TODO comments are very widely used by software developers to describe their pending
tasks during software development. However, after performing the task developers …

Deep just-in-time inconsistency detection between comments and source code

S Panthaplackel, JJ Li, M Gligoric… - Proceedings of the AAAI …, 2021 - ojs.aaai.org
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 …

Just-in-time obsolete comment detection and update

Z Liu, X **a, D Lo, M Yan, S Li - IEEE Transactions on Software …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Comments are valuable resources for the development, comprehension and maintenance of
software. However, while changing code, developers sometimes neglect the evolution of the …

Are your comments outdated? Toward automatically detecting code‐comment consistency

Y Huang, Y Chen, X Chen… - Journal of Software …, 2025 - Wiley Online Library
In software development and maintenance, code comments can help developers
understand source code and improve communication among developers. However …