| dc.description.abstract | In the software development process, developers often fail to update comments due to development needs, leading to inconsistencies between code and comments. Additionally, with frequent code changes, the temporal nature of comments causes the history of comments to be difficult to retain completely in the latest version of the code, which is crucial for future software maintenance.
Traditional code commenting methods have many drawbacks, such as the inability to leave long messages, lack of support for multimedia comments, and difficulty in tracking changes to code and comments. To address these issues, this thesis proposes a tool named Message Box, an extension of the GeekyNote tagging system, aimed at automatically integrating historical information and combining Git messages to provide code change history tracking and management. This tool resolves the consistency issues between code and comments, and can integrate various types of information as well as store HTML tags, images, videos, and other data, making the presentation of information more readable. Additionally, by incorporating Git timeline data, Message Box addresses the temporal nature of comments, preventing past information from disappearing in the latest project versions.
The design and implementation of Message Box demonstrate a new way to manage the historical changes of code and comments, significantly improving software development efficiency and code maintainability. It reduces the risk of inconsistencies and obsolescence of comments, provides detailed change history records, and facilitates developers in tracing and understanding changes. | en_US |