A Readability Model Based on Source Code Organization

Del Carpio P.M. · RISTI - Revista Iberica de Sistemas e Tecnologias de Informacao (2023)

Resumen

Readability is a property which is highly desirable in source code, however, conventional readability models work at file level, while source code is named and organized with criteria that is not been taken in account. This work addresses the software readability at a package level of source code, using naming patterns for identifying frequent words, and getting features which offer a sense for such words. The elements of the proposal have been evaluated using the corpus of projects Qualitas, the results show an important presence of the elements which are the base of this proposal.

Instituciones: Universidad La Salle