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  • Typographic style is more than cosmetic

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    Oman, Paul W. and Cook, Curtis R.
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    There is disagreement about the role and importance of typographic style (source code formatting and commenting) in program comprehension. Results from experiments and opinions in programming style books are mixed. This paper presents principles of typographic style consistent and compatible with the results of program comprehension studies. It introduces the...
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    COSMETIC Pau1 W. Oman Computer Science Department University of Idaho Moscow, Idaho 83843 Curtis R

  • Programming style authorship analysis

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    Oman, Paul W. and Cook, Curtis R.
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    Detecting instances of software theft and plagiarism is a difficult problem. The statistical analysis of peculiar words or phrases known to be used by an author is a common method of settling authorship disputes in English literature. This paper presents a similar method for identifying authorship of programs. The method...
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    PROGRAMJ.JING STYLE AUTHORSHIP ANALYSIS Paul 1f. Oman Computer Science Department University of Idaho

  • A paradigm for programming style research

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    Oman, Paul W. and Cook, Curtis R.
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    Programming style guidelines and automated coding style analyzers have been developed without a solid experimental or theoretical basis. In this paper we make a distinction between typographic (layout) style characteristics and the underlying structural style content and then show through controlled studies that this distinction aids in assessing the influence...
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    PROGRAMMING STYLE RESEARCH Paul W. Oman Computer Science Depart ment University of Idaho Moscow, Idaho

  • Reverse engineering code listings into "books" to improve maintainability

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    Oman, Paul W. and Cook, Curtis R.
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    We have identified a "book paradigm" for source code formatting which improves program comprehension and assists in maintenance work. The book paradigm can be implemented by reverse engineering code listings into a "book" with preface, tab1es of contents, chapters, sections, indices and pagination. This reverse engineering effectively reorganizes source code...
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    CODE LISTINGS INTO "BOOKS" TO IMPROVE MAINTAINABILITY Paul W. Oman Computer Science Department

  • Design and code traceability using a PDL metrics tool

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    Oman, Paul W. and Cook, Curtis R.
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    This paper describes an analysis tool that extracts complexity metrics from Program Design Language (PDL) as contained in design specification documents. The tool analyzes pseudocode and computes token-count metrics of PDL complexity on a module by module basis. We used the tool to measure consistency within and across modules and...
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    TRACEABILITY USING A PDL METRICS TOOL Dr . Paul w. Oman Department of Computer Science University of Idaho

  • Effects of programming experience in debugging semantic errors

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    Oman, Paul W., Cook, Curtis R., and Nanja, Murthi
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    This paper presents the results of a controlled experiment comparing debugging abilities of novice, intermediate and skilled student programmers. Debugging performance differences were studied using two single-page Pascal programs: a binary search program and a median calculation program. Two types of semantic errors, array bounds and undefined variable, and two...
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    Experience in Debugging Semantic Errors Paul W. Oman, Curtis R. Cook, Murthi Nanja Department of Computer