Program Comprehension

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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An Ensemble Approach for Annotating Source Code Identifiers with Part-of-speech Tags
This paper presents an ensemble part-of-speech tagging approach for source code identifiers. Ensemble tagging is a technique that uses …
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Using Grammar Patterns to Interpret Test Method Name Evolution
It is good practice to name test methods such that they are comprehensible to developers; they must be written in such a way that their …
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On the generation, structure, and semantics of grammar patterns in source code identifiers
Identifiers make up a majority of the text in code. They are one of the most basic mediums through which developers describe the code …
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