Assessing Comment Quality in Object-Oriented Languages

af Pooja Rani

High-quality code comments support developers in software maintenance and program comprehension tasks. However, the semi-structured nature of comments, several conventions to write comments, and the lack of quality assessment tools for all aspects of comments make comment evaluation and maintenance a non-trivial problem. To understand the specification of high-quality comments to build effective assessment tools, we emphasize on acquiring a multi-perspective view of the comments, which can be ap... (Læs mere)