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A new family of software anti-patterns: linguistic anti-patterns.

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Author	Arnaoudova, Venera Penta, Massimiliano Di Antoniol, Giuliano Guéhéneuc, Yann-Gaël
Abstract	Abstract—Recent and past studies have shown that poor source code lexicon negatively affects software understandability, maintainability, and, overall, quality. Besides a poor usage of lexicon and documentation, sometimes a software artifact description is misleading with respect to its implementation. Consequently, developers will spend more time and effort when understanding these software artifacts, or even make wrong assumptions when they use them. This paper introduces the definition of software linguistic antipatterns, and defines a family of them, i.e., those related to inconsistencies (i) between method signatures, documentation, and behavior and (ii) between attribute names, types, and comments. Whereas “design ” antipatterns represent recurring, poor design choices, linguistic antipatterns represent recurring, poor naming and commenting choices. The paper provides a first catalogue of one family of linguistic antipatterns, showing real examples of such antipatterns and explaining what kind of misunderstanding they can cause. Also, the paper proposes a dectector prototype for Java programs called LAPD (Linguistic Anti-Pattern Detector), and reports a study investigating the presence of linguistic antipatterns in four Java software projects. Keywords-Software antipatterns, Source code lexicon, Textual analysis of software artifacts.
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Subject Keyword	Software Anti-patterns New Family Linguistic Antipatterns Linguistic Anti-patterns Software Artifact Past Study Poor Usage Attribute Name Linguistic Anti-pattern Detector Software Linguistic Antipatterns Poor Design Choice First Catalogue Textual Analysis Poor Naming Wrong Assumption Dectector Prototype Keywords-software Antipatterns Real Example Java Software Project Software Understandability Method Signature Poor Source Code Lexicon Software Artifact Description Source Code Lexicon Java Program Whereas Design Abstract Recent
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