The International Smalltalk Technologies Workshop (IWST) is a forum around advances or experience in Smalltalk, bringing together Smalltalk practitioners since 2009. The IWST aims to stimulate discussion and exchange of ideas on all aspects of Smalltalk, both theoretical and practical. IWST is a co-located event with the annual European Smalltalk User Group (ESUG) conference. The 2022 edition of IWST was held in Novi Sad, Serbia, July 24-26, with Lam Research Corporation as a sponsor.
Introduction to IWST 2022: a word from the editors
This report gathers six articles grouped into 3 categories of two papers each. The first one is dedicated to performance: providing guidelines to achieve high performance, measuring performance in AI. The second one deals with implementation and debugging in smalltalk through two innovative axes: model-based delta-programming, and time-travelling debuggers. The last category is dedicated to refactoring: transformation-based refactoring, and automatic generation of class comments.
Pharo environment, code comments are the primary form of code documentation and typically convey information ranging from high-level design descriptions to low-level implementation details. In this work, the authors adopt the stereotype-based approach to automatically generate class comments in the pharo programming environment.
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