The impact of programming styles on debugging efficiency

Authors:
Peter R. Newsted;Wing-Keen Leong;Joanna Yeung
Affiliations:
University of Calgary;University of Calgary;University of Calgary
Venue:
ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes
Year:
1981

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Abstract

Experimental results are presented indicating that programming techniques with identation, documentation, mnemonic variable names, modular design, as well as external design aids (i.e. structure charts, data flow diagrams, but not flow charts), correlate with fewer errors. Results also indicate that programmers who use these techniques take less time to detect and solve program bugs, suggesting that efficiency is increased.