Impacts of Coding Practices on Readability (ICPC 2018 - Technical Research) - ICPC 2018

Sun 27 - Mon 28 May 2018 Gothenburg, Sweden

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Who

Rodrigo Santos, Marco Gerosa

Track

ICPC 2018 Technical Research

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Mon 28 May 2018 16:00 - 16:17 at J1 room - Readibility, Features and APIs Chair(s): Yoshiki Higo

Abstract

Several conventions and standards aim to improve maintainability of software code. However, low levels of code readability perceived by developers still represent a barrier to their daily work. In this paper, we describe a survey that assessed the impact of a set of Java coding practices on the readability perceived by software developers. While some practices promoted an enhancement of readability, others did not show statistically significant effects. Interestingly, one of the practices worsened the readability. Our results may help to identify coding conventions with a positive impact on readability and, thus, guide the creation of coding standards.

Link to Preprint

https://www.ime.usp.br/~gerosa/papers/ICPC2018-Legibility.pdf

Rodrigo Santos

IPT-SP

Marco Gerosa

Northern Arizona University

United States

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	16:00 - 17:30	Readibility, Features and APIsTechnical Research at J1 room Chair(s): Yoshiki Higo Osaka University

	16:00 17m Full-paper		Impacts of Coding Practices on ReadabilityTechnical Research Technical Research Rodrigo Santos IPT-SP, Marco Gerosa Northern Arizona University Pre-print
	16:17 10m Short-paper		An Empirical Investigation on the Readability of Manual and Generated Test CasesERA Technical Research Giovanni Grano University of Zurich, Simone Scalabrino University of Molise, Harald Gall University of Zurich, Rocco Oliveto University of Molise Pre-print
	16:27 10m Short-paper		The CodeCompass Comprehension FrameworkTool Demo Technical Research Zoltan Porkolab Eotvos Lorond University, Dániel Krupp Ericsson Ltd, Tibor Brunner Ericsson Hungary, Marton Csordas Ericsson Hungary Link to publication DOI Pre-print
	16:37 17m Full-paper		The Effect of Poor Source Code Lexicon and Readability on Developers' Cognitive LoadTechnical Research Technical Research Sarah Fakhoury Washington State University, Yuzhan Ma Washington State University Pullman, Venera Arnaoudova Washington State University Pullman, Olusola Adesope Washington State University DOI Pre-print
	16:54 17m Full-paper		Assessing an Architecture's Ability to Support Feature EvolutionTechnical Research Technical Research Ran Mo Drexel University, Yuanfang Cai Drexel University, Rick Kazman University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, Qiong Feng Drexel University
	17:11 10m Industry talk		Leveraging the Agile Development Process for Selecting Invoking/Excluding Tests to Support Feature LocationIndustry Track Technical Research Gregory S. DeLozier , Michael J. Decker Bowling Green State University, Christian D. Newman Rochester Institute of Technology, Jonathan I. Maletic Kent State University