Automatic generation of pull request descriptions

• Main Authors: LIU, Zhongxin, XIA, Xin, TREUDE, Christoph, LO, David, LI, Shanping
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2019
• Subjects: Document Generation; Pull Request; Sequence to Sequence Learning; Databases and Information Systems; Software Engineering
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/7948; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/8951/viewcontent/Liu2019PullRequestDesc.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Enabled by the pull-based development model, developers can easily contribute to a project through pull requests (PRs). When creating a PR, developers can add a free-form description to describe what changes are made in this PR and/or why. Such a description is helpful for reviewers and other develo...