Entity based source code summarization (EBSCS)

Abstract

In the software evolution process a developer must analyze the source code in order to understand the entities in it. In general this analysis is done manually which takes lots of time and is a tedious task. The other option is to use automated source code summarization techniques. Existing techniques does not provide the required summary and most of them are complex. Source code summarization is the task of creating readable summaries that describe the functionality of software. Source code summarization is a critical component of documentation generation. In this paper we propose a novel summarization technique called EBSCS which is based on the entities like packages, classes, methods control statements and comments in the source code. In this technique description is generated for the entities and the comment lines are used to generate summary for the source code.