Effective identifier names for comprehension and memory

Innovations in Systems and Software Engineering

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 303-318

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

^a LOYOLA UNIVERSITY MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Program comprehension; Quality assessment; Software quality

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER PROGRAM LISTINGS; DATA STORAGE EQUIPMENT; WORD PROCESSING;

PROGRAM COMPREHENSION; QUALITY ASSESSMENT; SOFTWARE QUALITY;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 36749069970     PISSN: 16145046     EISSN: 16145054     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11334-007-0031-2     Document Type: Article

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