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Nazar N, Hu Y, Jiang H. Summarizing software artifacts: A literature review. JOURNAL OF COMPUTER SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 31(5): 883–909 Sept. 2016. DOI 10.1007/s11390-016-1671-1 Summarizing Software Artifacts: A Literature Review Najam Nazar 1, Yan Hu 1 , Member, CCF, ACM, and He Jiang 1,2,∗, Member, CCF, ACM 1Key Laboratory for Ubiquitous Network and Service Software of Liaoning Province, School of Software Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116621, China 2 State Key Laboratory of Software Engineering, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, China E-mail: najamnazar@; {huyan, jianghe}@ Received November 20, 2015; revised July 30, 2016. Abstract This paper presents a literature review in the field of summarizing software artifacts, focusing on bug reports, source code, mailing lists and developer discussions artifacts. From Jan. 2010 to Apr. 2016, numerous summarization techniques, approaches, and tools have been proposed to satisfy the ongoing demand of improving software performance and quality and facilitating developers in understanding the problems at hand. Since aforementioned artifacts contain both structured and unstructured data at the same time, researchers have applied different machine learning and data mining techniques to generate summaries. Therefore, this paper first intends to provide a general perspective on the state of the art, describing the type of artifacts, approaches for summarization, as well as the common portions of experimental procedures shared among these artifacts. Moreover, we discuss the applications of summarization, i.e., what tasks at hand have been achieved through summarization. Next, this paper presents tools that are generated for summarization tasks or employed during summarization tasks. In addition, we present different summarization evaluation methods employed in sele