Context. Code quality is a key issue in software development. The ability to develop high
quality software is therefore a key learning goal of computing programs. However, there are …

Background: Meeting the growing industry demand for Data Science requires cross-
disciplinary teams that can translate machine learning research into production-ready code …

Code reading is one of the most frequent activities in software maintenance. Such an activity
aims at acquiring information from the code and, thus, it is a prerequisite for program …

Context: Writing code that is understandable by other collaborators has become crucial to
enhancing collaboration and productivity. Clean Code has become one of the most relevant …

An early study showed that indentation is not a matter of style, but provides actual support for
program comprehension. In this paper, we present a non-exact replication of this study. Our …

Context Reading and understanding the source code are fundamental to supporting
software programmers' daily activities. Still, there is no agreement regarding the program …

Code reading is an activity frequently performed by developers. Before modifying code,
developers have to read it, especially if it was authored by others. Several studies have …

Objectives. The main objective of this study is to gain an understanding about the perception
the developers have about clean code and how they use it in practice. There is not much …

Background: Coding guidelines can be contradictory despite their intention of providing a
universal perspective on source code quality. For instance, five attributes (code size …

In software, code is the only part that remains up to date, which shows how important code
is. Code readability is the capability of the code that makes it readable and understandable …