Abstract:Studies have shown that more than 50% of software maintenance time is spent reading code to understand it. This puts a strong emphasis on the understandability of source code. Class names constitute one of the first pieces of information developers have access to. Proposal: To assist developers in understanding the logic and regularity of class names, we present a new and simple visualization, called ClassName Distribution. It brings together package and inheritance as structural perspectives on class names. C… Show more
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