Concise and Consistent Naming

Deißenböck, Florian; Pizka, Markus

doi:10.1109/wpc.2005.14

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“…This provides evidence that software engineers need to consider shorter, more concise names [3]. The study extends prior results [4] from a highly controlled setting to a less controlled setting that, by using production code, more accurately mirrors real life.…”

Section: Summary and Future Challengessupporting

confidence: 78%

“…Finally, Deissenböck and Pizka present a formal model based on bijective mappings between concepts and names for adequate identifier naming [3]. The model is based on the observation that "research on the cognitive processes of language and text understanding shows that it is the semantics inherent to words that determine the comprehension process."…”

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confidence: 99%

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Binkley

Lawrie

Maex

et al. 2008

2008 16th IEEE International Conference on Program Comprehension

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Binkley

Lawrie

Maex

et al. 2008

2008 16th IEEE International Conference on Program Comprehension

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“…Identifier and program understanding has been investigated in [1], [2], [23], [24]. Other work [3], [4], [11], [25] attempted to investigate the information carried by the words composing identifiers, their syntactic structure and quality.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…In their seminal work, Deißenböck and Pizka highlighted that proper identifiers improve quality and that "it is the semantics inherent to words that determine the comprehension process" [1]. Indeed, according to Tonella and Caprile [2], [3], the identifiers are one of the most important source of information about system concepts.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

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Recognizing Words from Source Code Identifiers Using Speech Recognition Techniques

Madani

Guerrouj

Penta

et al. 2010

2010 14th European Conference on Software Maintenance and Reengineering

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Abstract-The existing software engineering literature has empirically shown that a proper choice of identifiers influences software understandability and maintainability. Researchers have noticed that identifiers are one of the most important source of information about program entities and that the semantic of identifiers guide the cognitive process.Recognizing the words forming identifiers is not an easy task when naming conventions (e.g., Camel Case) are not used or strictly followed and-or when these words have been abbreviated or otherwise transformed. This paper proposes a technique inspired from speech recognition, i.e., dynamic time warping, to split identifiers into component words.The proposed technique has been applied to identifiers extracted from two different applications: JHotDraw and Lynx. Results compared to manually-built oracles and with Camel Case algorithm are encouraging. In fact, they show that the technique successfully recognizes words composing identifiers (even when abbreviated) in about 90% of cases and that it performs better than Camel Case. Furthermore, it was able to spot mistakes in the manually-built oracle.

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“…Identifier names are often key beacons to program plans that support higher-level mental models of understanding. According to Deißenböck et al [11] identifiers make up approximately 70% of source code. If a certain identifier naming style significantly increases the speed of code comprehension, this could significantly impact overall program understanding.…”

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An Eye Tracking Study on camelCase and under_score Identifier Styles

Sharif

Maletic

2010

2010 IEEE 18th International Conference on Program Comprehension

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Abstract-An empirical study to determine if identifiernaming conventions (i.e., camelCase and under_score) affect code comprehension is presented. An eye tracker is used to capture quantitative data from human subjects during an experiment. The intent of this study is to replicate a previous study published at ICPC 2009 (Binkley et al.) that used a timed response test method to acquire data. The use of eye-tracking equipment gives additional insight and overcomes some limitations of traditional data gathering techniques. Similarities and differences between the two studies are discussed. One main difference is that subjects were trained mainly in the underscore style and were all programmers. While results indicate no difference in accuracy between the two styles, subjects recognize identifiers in the underscore style more quickly.

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Concise and Consistent Naming

Cited by 121 publications

References 10 publications

Impact of Limited Memory Resources

Impact of Limited Memory Resources

Recognizing Words from Source Code Identifiers Using Speech Recognition Techniques

An Eye Tracking Study on camelCase and under_score Identifier Styles

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