Automatic Segmentation of Method Code into Meaningful Blocks: Design and Evaluation

Good programming practice and guidelines suggest that programmers use both vertical and horizontal spacing to visibly delineate between code segments that represent different algorithmic steps or high‐level actions. Unfortunately, programmers do not always follow these guidelines. Editors and integrated development environments (IDEs) can easily indent codes based on syntax, but they do not currently support automatic blank line insertion, which presents more significant challenges involving the semantics.

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