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code-comment inconsistency: a standalone construct

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Software engineering

mismatches between source code and the comments that describe it, cataloged by type and traced through code changes.

In software engineering, code-comment inconsistency refers to mismatches between source code and the comments that describe it, cataloged by type and traced through code changes. This meaning comes from Wen (2019) in 2019 IEEE/ACM 27th International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC).[1]

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References

Wen, F., Nagy, C., Bavota, G., & Lanza, M. (2019). A Large-Scale Empirical Study on Code-Comment Inconsistencies. 2019 IEEE/ACM 27th International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC). https://doi.org/10.1109/icpc.2019.00019

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