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}
}
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… 
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NOMINAL is presented, a naming convention checking library for Java that allows the declarative specification of conventions regarding typography and the use of abbreviations and phrases and investigates the extent to which developers follow conventions.
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NOMINAL is presented, a naming convention checking library for Java that allows the declarative specification of conventions regarding typography and the use of abbreviations and phrases and investigates the extent to which developers follow conventions.
Investigating Naming Convention Adherence in Java
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NOMINAL is presented, a naming convention checking library for Java that allows the declarative specification of conventions regarding typography and the use of abbreviations and phrases and investigates the extent to which developers follow conventions.
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NOMINAL is presented, a naming convention checking library for Java that allows the declarative specification of conventions regarding typography and the use of abbreviations and phrases and investigates the extent to which developers follow conventions.
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