Selection and presentation practices for code example summarization

@article{Ying2014SelectionAP,
  title={Selection and presentation practices for code example summarization},
  author={Annie T. T. Ying and Martin P. Robillard},
  journal={Proceedings of the 22nd ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Foundations of Software Engineering},
  year={2014}
}
  • Annie T. T. Ying, M. Robillard
  • Published 11 November 2014
  • Computer Science
  • Proceedings of the 22nd ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Foundations of Software Engineering
Code examples are an important source for answering questions about software libraries and applications. Many usage contexts for code examples require them to be distilled to their essence: e.g., when serving as cues to longer documents, or for reminding developers of a previously known idiom. We conducted a study to discover how code can be summarized and why. As part of the study, we collected 156 pairs of code examples and their summaries from 16 participants, along with over 26 hours of… 
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