AUTOPRTITLE: A tool for automatic pull request title generation

• Main Authors: IRSAN, Ivana Clairine, ZHANG, Ting, THUNG, Ferdian, LO, David, JIANG, Lingxiao
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2022
• Subjects: Pull request; GitHub; Summarization; Pretrained models; Software Engineering
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/7700; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/8703/viewcontent/autoprtitle.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

With the rise of the pull request mechanism in software development, the quality of pull requests has gained more attention. Prior works focus on improving the quality of pull request descriptions and several approaches have been proposed to automatically generate pull request descriptions. As an es...