Creating important statement type comments in autocomment: Automatic comment generation framework

Abstract

This study explains important statement comments generated by Autocomment, which is an automatic comment generation framework described in [1]. To create the comments, the source code is not expected to be runnable, but to conliffm to the syntax rules of the Java programming language. Two types of comments are created: summary comments and important statement comments. How the important statements are extracted in a given Java source, how they are classified, how comments are generated for each type of important statement have been explained in this work.