Earl T. Barr

Deep Learning to Detect Redundant Method Comments

2018 · arXiv (Cornell University)

Comments in software are critical for maintenance and reuse. But apart from prescriptive advice, there is little practical support or quantitative understanding of what makes a comment useful. In this paper, we introduce the task …

Suggesting accurate method and class names

2015

Descriptive names are a vital part of readable, and hence maintainable, code. Recent progress on automatically suggesting names for local variables tantalizes with the prospect of replicating that success with method and class names. However, …