[2306.14418] Context-Encoded Code Change Representation for Automated Commit Message Generation
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arXiv:2306.14418 (cs)
[Submitted on 26 Jun 2023]

Title:Context-Encoded Code Change Representation for Automated Commit Message Generation

Authors:Thanh Trong Vu, Thanh-Dat Do, Hieu Dinh Vo
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Abstract:Changes in source code are an inevitable part of software development. They are the results of indispensable activities such as fixing bugs or improving functionality. Descriptions for code changes (commit messages) help people better understand the changes. However, due to a lack of motivation and time pressure, writing high-quality commit messages remains reluctantly considered. Several methods have been proposed with the aim of automated commit message generation.
However, the existing methods are still limited because they only utilise either the changed code or the changed code combined with surrounding statements.
This paper proposes a method to represent code changes by combining the changed code and the unchanged code which have program dependence on the changed code. This method overcomes the limitations of current representations while improving the performance of 5/6 of state-of-the-art commit message generation methods by up to 15% in METEOR, 14% in ROUGE-L, and 10% in BLEU-4.
Comments: 16 pages
Subjects: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
Cite as: arXiv:2306.14418 [cs.SE]
  (or arXiv:2306.14418v1 [cs.SE] for this version)
  https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2306.14418

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From: Thanh Vu Trong [view email]
[v1] Mon, 26 Jun 2023 04:48:14 UTC (366 KB)
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