Exploring the Characteristics of Identifiers: A Large-Scale Empirical Study on 5,000 Open Source Projects
Informative identifiers are crucial for the comprehensibility and maintainability of programs. Exploring properties of identifiers and investigating their impact on software artifacts have been an important research focus. However, to enable such capabilities, fundamentally we need to have comprehen...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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IEEE
2020-01-01
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| Series: | IEEE Access |
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| Online Access: | https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9154350/ |