The Comment Mentor (COMTOR) and Grading Project

The Comment Mentor was conceived in 2005 as an educational tool to assist both seasoned developers and new programmers learn better source code-level documentation strategies. Comment Mentor attempts to provide a tool that automates the grading process and provides meaningful feedback to the programmer to encourage better commenting practices. Not only does it assist the grader, it can assist the student or developer before code is submitted by making sure comments are at some threshold level of quality before code is submitted.

COMTOR can be used only as a web application, and soon through a Netbeans or Eclipse plug in that we are development via our API interface. It currently understands how to parse Java language source code because it takes advantage of the Javadoc tool and API. Other languages are slated for development; we welcome your suggestions and help on developing the appropriate tools.

Developer Resources
The resources for our development team contain archival and current development documentation, as well as links to items of interest (tools, tips, etc.)

COMTOR Analysis
Until we have more data to organize on this wiki, we'll a few link to a page from some of our earlier analysis that we find interesting.

COMTOR Dissemination
We track all of our project-related dissemination efforts through our dissemination page.