IDEAL: An Open-Source Identifier Name Appraisal Tool

Autor:	Peruma, Anthony, Arnaoudova, Venera, Newman, Christian D.
Rok vydání:	2021
Předmět:	Computer Science - Software Engineering
Druh dokumentu:	Working Paper
Popis:	Developers must comprehend the code they will maintain, meaning that the code must be legible and reasonably self-descriptive. Unfortunately, there is still a lack of research and tooling that supports developers in understanding their naming practices; whether the names they choose make sense, whether they are consistent, and whether they convey the information required of them. In this paper, we present IDEAL, a tool that will provide feedback to developers about their identifier naming practices. Among its planned features, it will support linguistic anti-pattern detection, which is what will be discussed in this paper. IDEAL is designed to, and will, be extended to cover further anti-patterns, naming structures, and practices in the near future. IDEAL is open-source and publicly available, with a demo video available at: https://youtu.be/fVoOYGe50zg Comment: Accepted at: The 37th International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME '21)
Databáze:	arXiv
Externí odkaz:	http://arxiv.org/abs/2107.08344 Zobrazit plný text záznamu View this record from Arxiv