3 papers
cs.SE2025
Identifier Name Similarities: An Exploratory Study
Carol Wong, Mai Abe, Silvia De Benedictis +2
Identifier names, which comprise a significant portion of the codebase, are the cornerstone of effective program comprehension. However, research has shown that poorly chosen names…
cs.SE2025
Method Names in Jupyter Notebooks: An Exploratory Study
Carol Wong, Gunnar Larsen, Rocky Huang +2
Method names play an important role in communicating the purpose and behavior of their functionality. Research has shown that high-quality names significantly improve code comprehe…
cs.SE2025
Exploring Code Comprehension in Scientific Programming: Preliminary Insights from Research Scientists
Alyssia Chen, Carol Wong, Bonita Sharif +1
Scientific software-defined as computer programs, scripts, or code used in scientific research, data analysis, modeling, or simulation-has become central to modern research. Howeve…