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Effect Analysis of Coding Convention Violations on Readability of Post-Delivered Code
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Adherence to coding conventions during the code production stage of software development is essential. Benefits include enabling programmers to quickly understand the context of shared code, communicate with one another in a consistent manner, and easily maintain the source code at low costs. In reality, however, programmers tend to doubt or ignore the degree to which the quality of their code is affected by adherence to these guidelines. This paper addresses research questions such as “Do violations of coding conventions affect the readability of the produced code?”, “What kinds of coding violations reduce code readability?”, and “How much do variable factors such as developer experience, project size, team size, and project maturity influence coding violations?” To respond to these research questions, we explored 210 open-source Java projects with 117 coding conventions from the Sun standard checklist. We believe our findings and the analysis approach used in the paper will encourage programmers and QA managers to develop their own customized and effective coding style guidelines.
- Publication
- IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information Vol.E98-D No.7 pp.1286-1296
- Publication Date
- 2015/07/01
- Publicized
- 2015/04/10
- Online ISSN
- 1745-1361
- DOI
- 10.1587/transinf.2014EDP7327
- Type of Manuscript
- PAPER
- Category
- Software Engineering
Authors
Taek LEE
Korea University
Jung-Been LEE
Korea University
Hoh Peter IN
Korea University
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Taek LEE, Jung-Been LEE, Hoh Peter IN, "Effect Analysis of Coding Convention Violations on Readability of Post-Delivered Code" in IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information,
vol. E98-D, no. 7, pp. 1286-1296, July 2015, doi: 10.1587/transinf.2014EDP7327.
Abstract: Adherence to coding conventions during the code production stage of software development is essential. Benefits include enabling programmers to quickly understand the context of shared code, communicate with one another in a consistent manner, and easily maintain the source code at low costs. In reality, however, programmers tend to doubt or ignore the degree to which the quality of their code is affected by adherence to these guidelines. This paper addresses research questions such as “Do violations of coding conventions affect the readability of the produced code?”, “What kinds of coding violations reduce code readability?”, and “How much do variable factors such as developer experience, project size, team size, and project maturity influence coding violations?” To respond to these research questions, we explored 210 open-source Java projects with 117 coding conventions from the Sun standard checklist. We believe our findings and the analysis approach used in the paper will encourage programmers and QA managers to develop their own customized and effective coding style guidelines.
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