9.6 million links in source code comments: Purpose, evolution, and decay

• المؤلفون الرئيسيون: HATA, Hideaki, TREUDE, Christoph, KULA, Raula Gaikovina, ISHIO, Takashi
• التنسيق: text
• اللغة: English
• منشور في: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2019
• الموضوعات: code comment; knowledge sharing; link decay; Software Engineering
• الوصول للمادة أونلاين: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/8801; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/9804/viewcontent/icse19a.pdf
• المؤسسة: Singapore Management University

Links are an essential feature of the World Wide Web, and source code repositories are no exception. However, despite their many undisputed benefits, links can suffer from decay, insufficient versioning, and lack of bidirectional traceability. In this paper, we investigate the role of links containe...