Program Comprehension

Exploring Large Language Models for Analyzing and Improving Method Names in Scientific Code
Research scientists increasingly rely on implementing software to support their research. While previous research has examined the …
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Identifier Name Similarities: An Exploratory Study
Identifier names, which comprise a significant portion of the codebase, are the cornerstone of effective program comprehension. …
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On the structure and semantics of identifier names containing closed syntactic category words
Identifier names are crucial components of code, serving as primary clues for developers to understand program behavior. This paper …
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Exploring Code Comprehension in Scientific Programming: Preliminary Insights from Research Scientists
Scientific software-defined as computer programs, scripts, or code used in scientific research, data analysis, modeling, or …
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Method Names in Jupyter Notebooks: An Exploratory Study
Method names play an important role in communicating the purpose and behavior of their functionality. Research has shown that …
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SCALAR: A Part-of-speech Tagger for Identifiers
The paper presents the Source Code Analysis and Lexical Annotation Runtime (SCALAR), a tool specialized for mapping (annotating) source …
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On the Rationale and Use of Assertion Messages in Test Code: Insights from Software Practitioners
Unit testing is an important practice that helps ensure the quality of a software system by validating its behavior through a series of …
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Impostor Syndrome in Final Year Computer Science Students: An Eye Tracking and Biometrics Study
Imposter syndrome is a psychological phenomenon that affects individuals who doubt their skills and abilities, despite possessing the …
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Understanding Digits in Identifier Names: An Exploratory Study
Before any software maintenance can occur, developers must read the identifier names found in the code to be maintained. Thus, …
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IDEAL: An Open-Source Identifier Name Appraisal Tool
Developers must comprehend the code they will maintain, meaning that the code must be legible and reasonably self-descriptive. …
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