• DOI:10.1145/2635868.2635883
Corpus ID: 2437629

Learning natural coding conventions

@article{Allamanis2014LearningNC,
  title={Learning natural coding conventions},
  author={Miltiadis Allamanis and Earl T. Barr and Charles Sutton},
  journal={Proceedings of the 22nd ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Foundations of Software Engineering},
  year={2014}
}

• Miltiadis Allamanis, Earl T. Barr, Charles Sutton
• Published 2014
• Computer Science
• Proceedings of the 22nd ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Foundations of Software Engineering

Every programmer has a characteristic style, ranging from preferences about identifier naming to preferences about object relationships and design patterns. Coding conventions define a consistent syntactic style, fostering readability and hence maintainability. When collaborating, programmers strive to obey a project’s coding conventions. However, one third of reviews of changes contain feedback about coding conventions, indicating that programmers do not always follow them and that project… Expand

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