LUCID: Clearer Software by Integrating Natural Language Analysis into Software Engineering

开发人员将大部分时间花在维护代码上，几乎没有工具支持。要维护代码，必须理解它。清晰的代码更容易阅读和理解，因此开发和维护的成本和风险也更低；这也是出了名的难写。我们将帮助开发人员编写更清晰的代码，以加快维护速度，并提高开发人员的生产力。源代码结合了两个通道——编程语言和自然语言——来描述算法。LUCID将通过开发新的分析，利用这些渠道之间的相互联系来发现不具有信息性的名称、过时的评论和显示为两个渠道之间差异的错误，从而推动软件工程的艺术状态。

Developers spend most of their time maintaining code, with little tool support.To maintain code, one must understand it. Clear code is easier to read andunderstand, and therefore less expensive and risky to evolve and maintain; itis also notoriously difficult to write. We will help developers write clearercode to speed maintenance, and increase developer productivity. Source codeunites two channels - the programming language and natural language - todescribe algorithms. LUCID will advance the state of the art in softwareengineering by developing new analyses that exploit the interconnectionsbetween these channels to find uninformative names, stale comments, and bugsthat manifest as discrepancies between the two channels.