Automatically generating commit messages from diffs using neural machine translation

• Published in: 2017 32nd IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE) pp. 135 - 146
• Main Authors: Siyuan Jiang, Armaly, Ameer, McMillan, Collin
• Format: Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: IEEE 01.10.2017
• Subjects: Algorithm design and analysis; Computer bugs; Machine learning; Natural languages; Prediction algorithms; Software; Software algorithms

Commit messages are a valuable resource in comprehension of software evolution, since they provide a record of changes such as feature additions and bug repairs. Unfortunately, programmers often neglect to write good commit messages. Different techniques have been proposed to help programmers by aut...