An empirical study on Java method name suggestion: are we there yet?

01/21/2022

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by   Weidong Wang, et al.

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A large-scale evaluation for current naming approaches substantiates that such approaches are accurate. However, it is less known about which categories of method names work well via such naming approaches and how's the performance of naming approaches. To point out the superiority of the current naming approach, in this paper, we conduct an empirical study on such approaches in a new dataset. Moreover, we analyze the successful naming approaches above and find that: (1) around 60 prefixes within get, set, is, and test. (2) A large portion (19.3 names successfully recommended could be derived from the given method bodies. The comparisons also demonstrate the superior performance of the empirical study.