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**Mining Source Code Descriptions from Developer Communications**
\\ Sebastiano Panichella,Jairo Aponte, Massimiliano Di Penta,Andrian Marcus,Gerardo Canfora
\\ Dept. of Engineering-RCOST, University of Sannio, Italy
\\ Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogota, Colombia
\\ Wayne State University, Detroit USA

[[http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6240510|Link]]

** Problem:** 
\\ Absence of comments/descriptions for methods. 

**Importance/Applications of the technique:**
\\ Automatic mining of source code descriptions from bug tracking systems and mailing lists.
\\ Source code re-documentation.


**Approach:**
\\ 1. Downloading emails and tracing them onto classes- using 2 heuristics- if email contains fully qualified class name or file name. For bug ids-matching bug id to closing comments.
\\ 2. Extracting paragraphs based on programming language keyword/operator density.
\\ 3. Tracing paragraphs onto method based on occurrence of keyword "method" and a method name followed by parenthesis. 
\\ 4. Filtering paragraphs further by - return types, overridding/overloading and method invocations(invoking a method inside another method).
\\ 5. 


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Evaluation:**



**Critique**