代码注释自动生成研究进展

代码注释作为软件中的重要组成部分,在软件维护、复用等领域中发挥着重要作用。代码注释自动生成技术旨在减轻人工编写注释的工作量,从而提高软件开发效率。现有的注释自动生成方法分为基于规则、文本摘要、数据驱动、主题模型、深度学习等层次。综述了代码注释自动生成的相关概念,对比总结各类代码注释自动生成方法,对近年来代码注释自动生成相关应用进行了梳理和总结,最后对注释自动生成所面临的挑战进行了分析,展望了该领域未来的研究。

Review on code comment automatic generation

As an important part of software,code comments play an important role in software maintenance,software reuse.Automatic code comments generation technology aims to reduce the workload of manual comment,thus improving the efficiency of software development.Existing comments automatic generation methods can be categorized into rule-based,text summary-based,data-based,topic model-based,deep learning-based and other levels.This paper summarized the concept of automatic code comments generation,compared and summarized the various types of code comment automatic generation methods,sorted out and reviewed the research progress of code comment automatic generation in recent years.Finally,this paper analyzed the challenges of code comments automatic generation and looked forward to the future research in this area.