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most citedA Decade of Code Comment Quality Assessment: A Systematic Literature Review

58 citations · 195 across the 7 of their papers we have counts for

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7 papers

cs.CL2023★ 48 cited

LEXTREME: A Multi-Lingual and Multi-Task Benchmark for the Legal Domain

Joel Niklaus, Veton Matoshi, Pooja Rani +3

Lately, propelled by the phenomenal advances around the transformer architecture, the legal NLP field has enjoyed spectacular growth. To measure progress, well curated and challeng…

cs.SE2022★ 58 cited

A Decade of Code Comment Quality Assessment: A Systematic Literature Review

Pooja Rani, Arianna Blasi, Nataliia Stulova +3

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. Howeve…

cs.SE2021★ 8 cited

Do Comments follow Commenting Conventions? A Case Study in Java and Python

Pooja Rani, Suada Abukar, Nataliia Stulova +2

Assessing code comment quality is known to be a difficult problem. A number of coding style guidelines have been created with the aim to encourage writing of informative, readable,…

cs.SE2021★ 12 cited

What Do Developers Discuss about Code Comments?

Pooja Rani, Mathias Birrer, Sebastiano Panichella +2

Code comments are important for program comprehension, development, and maintenance tasks. Given the varying standards for code comments, and their unstructured or semi-structured…

cs.SE2021★ 45 cited

How to Identify Class Comment Types? A Multi-language Approach for Class Comment Classification

Pooja Rani, Sebastiano Panichella, Manuel Leuenberger +2

Most software maintenance and evolution tasks require developers to understand the source code of their software systems. Software developers usually inspect class comments to gain…

cs.SE2021★ 5 cited

Speculative Analysis for Quality Assessment of Code Comments

Pooja Rani

Previous studies have shown that high-quality code comments assist developers in program comprehension and maintenance tasks. However, the semi-structured nature of comments, uncle…

cs.SE2020★ 19 cited

What do class comments tell us? An investigation of comment evolution and practices in Pharo Smalltalk

Pooja Rani, Sebastiano Panichella, Manuel Leuenberger +2

Previous studies have characterized code comments in various programming languages to support better program comprehension activities and maintenance tasks. However, very few studi…