Automatic Software Summarization: The State of the Art

While automatic text summarization has been widely studied for more than fifty years, in software engineering, automatic summarization is an emerging area that shows great potential and poses new and exciting research challenges. This technical briefing provides an introduction to the state of the art and maps future research directions in automatic software summarization. A first version was presented at ICSE'17 and now it is updated and enhanced, based on feedback from the audience.