Automating the removal of obsolete TODO comments

• Main Authors: GAO, Zhipeng, XIA, Xin, LO, David, GRUNDY, John C., ZIMMERMANN, Thomas
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2021
• Subjects: TODO comment; Obsolete comment; Code-Comment Inconsistency; Code-comment co-evolution; BERT model; Databases and Information Systems; Software Engineering
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/6760; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/7763/viewcontent/2108.05846.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

TODO comments are very widely used by software developers to describe their pending tasks during software development. However, after performing the task developers sometimes neglect or simply forget to remove the TODO comment, resulting in obsolete TODO comments. These obsolete TODO comments can co...