Measuring What Matters: An Aggregate Metric for Assessing Enterprise Code Summaries
Evaluating the quality of code summaries is essential for enterprise software, where the complexity and scale of codebases introduce unique challenges that are inadequately addressed by existing public code datasets and evaluation methods. These methods, typically designed for small and straightforward code snippets, often overlook critical issues such as repetitiveness, verbosity, and incompleteness—issues that are particularly prominent in enterprise-level code summaries. While correctness has been extensively studied, other dimensions critical to enterprise contexts, such as distinctiveness and completeness, remain underexplored. To address these gaps, we propose a novel evaluation framework that emphasizes aggregated metrics tailored to enterprise needs, prioritizing both distinctiveness and completeness. This framework introduces metrics designed to penalize verbosity and redundancy while rewarding informativeness and alignment with the underlying code. Initial experiments conducted on human-annotated enterprise Java datasets demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach by improving the RMSE values by 7.4% over the baselines. Correlation studies of our distinctiveness and completeness metrics with human ratings also shows improvement of 32% and 5.3% respectively over the baselines.
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14:00 - 15:30 | Code SearchResearch Papers / Journal First / Ideas, Visions and Reflections at Aurora A Chair(s): Xin Xia Zhejiang University | ||
14:00 20mTalk | 10 years later: revisiting how developers search for code Research Papers Kathryn Stolee North Carolina State University, Tobias Welp Google, Caitlin Sadowski , Sebastian Elbaum University of Virginia DOI | ||
14:20 20mTalk | Approaching Code Search for Python as a Translation Retrieval Problem with Dual Encoders Journal First | ||
14:40 20mTalk | Zero-Shot Cross-Domain Code Search without Fine-Tuning Research Papers Keyu Liang Zhejiang University, Zhongxin Liu Zhejiang University, Chao Liu Chongqing University, Zhiyuan Wan Zhejiang University, David Lo Singapore Management University, Xiaohu Yang Zhejiang University DOI | ||
15:00 10mTalk | Measuring What Matters: An Aggregate Metric for Assessing Enterprise Code Summaries Ideas, Visions and Reflections Ashita Saxena IBM Research, Palanivel Kodeswaran IBM Research India, Sayandeep Sen IBM Research India, Srikanth Tamilselvam IBM Research | ||
15:10 20mTalk | MiSum: Multi-Modality Heterogeneous Code Graph Learning for Multi-Intent Binary Code Summarization Research Papers Kangchen Zhu National university of Defense Technology, Zhiliang Tian National University of Defense Technology, Shangwen Wang National University of Defense Technology, Weiguo Chen National University of Defense Technology, Zixuan Dong National University of Defense Technology, mingyue leng National University of Defense Technology, Xiaoguang Mao National University of Defense Technology DOI | ||
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