NDLI: Code convention adherence in evolving software

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Smit, M. Gergel, B. Hoover, H.J. Stroulia, E.
Copyright Year	2011
Description	Author affiliation: Department of Computing Science, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada (Smit, M.; Gergel, B.; Hoover, H.J.; Stroulia, E.)
Abstract	Maintainability is a desired property of software, and a variety of metrics have been proposed for measuring it, focusing on different notions of complexity and code readability. Many practices have been proposed to improve maintainability through code refactorings: improving the cohesion, simplification of interfaces, renamings to improve understandability. Code conventions are a body of advice on lexical and syntactic aspects of code, aiming to standardize low-level code design under the assumption that such a systematic approach will make code easier to read, understand, and maintain. We present the first stage in our examination of code-convention adherence practices as a proxy measurement for maintainability. Based on a preliminary survey of software engineers, we identify a set of coding conventions that most relate to maintainability. Then we devise a “convention adherence” metric, based on the number and severity of violations of a defined coding convention. Finally, we analyze several open-source projects according to this metric to better understand how consistent different teams are with respect to adopting and conforming to code conventions.
Starting Page	504
Ending Page	507
File Size	349742
Page Count	4
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9781457706639
ISSN	10636773
e-ISBN	9781457706646
e-ISBN	9781457706622
DOI	10.1109/ICSM.2011.6080819
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2011-09-25
Publisher Place	USA
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Software Correlation Measurement Complexity theory Maintenance engineering Best practices Encoding
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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1	Ministry of Education (GoI), Department of Higher Education	Sanctioning Authority	https://www.education.gov.in/ict-initiatives
2	Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur	Host Institute of the Project: The host institute of the project is responsible for providing infrastructure support and hosting the project	https://www.iitkgp.ac.in
3	National Digital Library of India Office, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur	The administrative and infrastructural headquarters of the project	Dr. B. Sutradhar bsutra@ndl.gov.in
4	Project PI / Joint PI	Principal Investigator and Joint Principal Investigators of the project	Dr. B. Sutradhar bsutra@ndl.gov.in Prof. Saswat Chakrabarti will be added soon
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