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Studying abbreviated vs. full-word identifier names when dealing with faults: an external replication

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Porfirio Tramontana,

Michele Risi,

Giuseppe ScannielloAuthors Info & Claims

ESEM '14: Proceedings of the 8th ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement

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https://doi.org/10.1145/2652524.2652593

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Context: abbreviated and full-word identifier names in dealing with faults in source code. Goal: investigating whether the use of abbreviated identifier names affects the ability of novice professional software developers in identifying and fixing faults in Java code. Method: external replication. Results: the results of the original experiment (conducted on C code) were confirmed. Conclusions: the difference in using abbreviated and full-word identifiers is not statistically significant with respect to the time to complete a task and the number of faults identified and fixed.

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G. Scanniello and M. Risi. Dealing with faults in source code: Abbreviated vs. full-word identifier names. In International Conference on Software Maintenance, pages 190--199. IEEE CS Press, 2013.

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ESEM '14: Proceedings of the 8th ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement

September 2014

461 pages

ISBN:9781450327749

DOI:10.1145/2652524

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Maurizio Morisio
Politecnico di Torino, Italy
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