Automatic Generation of Commit Messages using Natural Language Processing

Software development requires Version Control System to manage and manipulate the changes made to source code. When a change is done in the file, related information is updated as commit message. Most of the time, commit messages are empty or very short. Accurate and complete commit messages summarizing the software changes are important for tracking the development and maintenance activities of a project. This paper presents an approach of Natural Language Processing for generating automatic commit messages, based on code changes included in a changeset and simultaneously integrated to software usage library to read the document files of the software. Commit messages are found useful, and to present an initial model of output for natural-language commit messages using verb phrases and their associated direct objects