sle2010/paper12

SLE 2010 paper:
Canonical Method Names for Java: Using Implementation Semantics to Identify Synonymous Verbs

Einar W. Høst, Bjarte M. Østvold

• DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-19440-5_14
• T5B: Language Description Analysis
  • The contribution is a language-oriented analysis of code to infer canonical method names from implementation semantics.
• T6G: Socio-technical
  • It targets developer-facing naming conventions and their cognitive/communication aspects in code bases.
• T5E: Empirical Evaluation
  • The approach is validated empirically by mining/analysing Java code and assessing synonym detection.

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