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Java: MUCA - Mark Up Comment Analyzer: Search Engine for Comment to Code Coupling

Translated title

Java: MUCA - Mark Up Comment Analyzer: Søgemaskine for Kommentar til Kode Kobling

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Term

4. term

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Publication year

2015

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Pages

78

Abstract

MUCA er en søgemaskine til kode, som accepterer forespørgsler skrevet som korte kommentarer. Den finder lignende kommentarer i sin database og returnerer det tilhørende stykke kode. For at fremhæve resultater af højere kvalitet tager MUCA højde for to signaler: hvor mange stjerner projektet har på GitHub (en platform til at dele kode) og hvor ofte en metode (en navngiven funktion) nævnes i kildekoden.

MUCA is a code search engine that accepts queries written as short comments. It finds similar comments in its database and returns the corresponding piece of code. To highlight higher‑quality results, MUCA considers two signals: how many stars the project has on GitHub (a site for sharing code) and how often a method (a named function) is mentioned in the source code.

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