The relevance of code comprehension in a developer's daily work was recognized more
than 40 years ago. Consequently, many experiments were conducted to find out how …

The readability of software code is a key success criterion for understanding and
maintaining software systems and tests. In industry practice, a limited number of guidelines …

Understanding program code is a complicated endeavor. As a result, studying code
comprehension is also hard. The prevailing approach for such studies is to use controlled …

Context Insufficient code understandability makes software difficult to inspect and maintain
and is a primary cause of software development cost. Several source code measures may …

Static code analysis tools and integrated development environments present developers
with quality-related software metrics, some of which describe the understandability of source …

Context While develo** software, developers must first read and understand source code
in order to work on change requests such as bug fixes or feature additions. The easier it is …

Evolving software is particularly challenging when the code has been poorly written or uses
confusing idioms and language constructs, which might increase maintenance efforts and …

Code comprehension is crucial for software maintenance and evolution, but it can be
hindered by tiny code snippets that can confuse the developers, called atoms of confusion …

The better the code quality and the less complex the code, the easier it is for software
developers to comprehend and evolve it. Yet, how do we best detect quality concerns in the …

Context: Software programs can be written in different but functionally equivalent ways. Even
though previous research has compared specific formatting elements to find out which …