CLARA: A Developer's Companion for Code Comprehension and Analysis

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09072v1
• Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2025 00:30:43 GMT
• Title: CLARA: A Developer's Companion for Code Comprehension and Analysis
• Authors: Ahmed Adnan, Mushfiqur Rahman, Saad Sakib Noor, Kazi Sakib,
• Abstract summary: We present CLARA, a browser extension that assists developers and researchers in comprehending code files and code fragments.<n>We qualitatively evaluated CLARA's inference model using existing datasets and methodology, and performed a comprehensive user study with 10 developers and academic researchers.<n>The results show that CLARA is useful, accurate, and practical in code comprehension and analysis tasks.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Code comprehension and analysis of open-source project codebases is a task frequently performed by developers and researchers. However, existing tools that practitioners use for assistance with such tasks often require prior project setup, lack context-awareness, and involve significant manual effort. To address this, we present CLARA, a browser extension that utilizes a state-of-the-art inference model to assist developers and researchers in: (i) comprehending code files and code fragments, (ii) code refactoring, and (iii) code quality attribute detection. We qualitatively evaluated CLARA's inference model using existing datasets and methodology, and performed a comprehensive user study with 10 developers and academic researchers to assess its usability and usefulness. The results show that CLARA is useful, accurate, and practical in code comprehension and analysis tasks. CLARA is an open-source tool available at https://github.com/SaadNoor555/CLARA_tool_demo. A video showing the full capabilities of CLARA can be found at https://youtu.be/VDKVXvIH41Q?si=qBFsmS_Y4m_9x3YH.

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