Refactoring: improving the design of existing code
Refactoring: improving the design of existing code
Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
Principles of Program Analysis
Principles of Program Analysis
Nomen Est Omen: Analyzing the Language of Function Identifiers
WCRE '99 Proceedings of the Sixth Working Conference on Reverse Engineering
IWPC '05 Proceedings of the 13th International Workshop on Program Comprehension
OOPSLA '05 Proceedings of the 20th annual ACM SIGPLAN conference on Object-oriented programming, systems, languages, and applications
What's in a Name? A Study of Identifiers
ICPC '06 Proceedings of the 14th IEEE International Conference on Program Comprehension
The Programmer's Lexicon, Volume I: The Verbs
SCAM '07 Proceedings of the Seventh IEEE International Working Conference on Source Code Analysis and Manipulation
An Empirical Investigation into Programming Language Syntax
ACM Transactions on Computing Education (TOCE)
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The use of bad names --- names that are wrong, inconsistent or inconcise --- hinder program comprehension. The root of the problem is that there is no mechanism for aligning the name and implementation of a method. We believe that judgment on the suitability of a chosen name can be passed automatically by comparing the actual implementation of a method to what we would expect from the name itself. The gist of our approach is to understand how programmers use language in their programs, by analysing a large corpus of Java applications.