Syntactic identifier conciseness and consistency

Proceedings - Sixth IEEE International Workshop on Source Code Analysis and Manipulation, SCAM 2006

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 139-148

  Lawrie, Dawn ^a   Feild, Henry ^a   Binkley, David ^a  

^a LOYOLA UNIVERSITY MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Identifier quality; Part of speech

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; IDENTIFICATION (CONTROL SYSTEMS); REQUIREMENTS ENGINEERING; SELF ORGANIZING MAPS; VOCABULARY CONTROL;

DOMAIN INFORMATION; FALSE POSITIVES; VARIABLE NAMING;

INFORMATION DISSEMINATION;

EID: 34948824924     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SCAM.2006.31     Document Type: Conference Paper

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