Honored with the Most Influential Paper Award (ICPC)
The International Conference of Program Comprehension (ICPC) 2015 awarded the publication Concise and Consistent Naming by Dr. Markus Pizka and Dr. Florian Deißenböck (CQSE GmbH) with the Most Influential Paper Award and thus as one of the most influential publications of the past 10 years.
The publication shows how important the naming of program components actually is for subsequent maintenance, provides clear quality criteria for this and presents a solution for automated checking of names with tools.
- 70% of the program code are self-selected names
- Naming has a significant influence on understanding
- Programming guidelines often only make “soft” specifications for this
- A formal model shows the critical aspects of naming
- Automated testing with tool support in Eclipse
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CONCISE AND CONSISTENT NAMING
Florian Deissenboeck, Markus Pizka
IN INT. WORKSHOP ON PROGRAM COMPREHENSION, ST. LOUIS, MO, MAY 2005