Class Level Code Summarization Based on Dependencies and Micro Patterns

Modifications in any software need to be carries out on various entities. Change in one entity may force some changes in many other dependent entities. Complete understanding of entities and there dependencies are highly desirable to carry out modifications in an efficient manner. Automated summarization of classes in object oriented software can be a good step in this direction. This paper proposes a natural language summary based code summarization of those java classes which are more change prone. Code summary is generated by using concept of micro patterns and change proneness is identified by computing different kinds of dependencies among classes. A threshold is decided to identify the classes which are more sensitive to change. The empirical evaluation of some open source classes has been carried out which clearly indicates the usefulness of the proposed work.

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