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....algorithms may doubt their usefulness. Thus those technologies may be ignored or forgotten rather than applied for some benefit. There are many obstacles that prevent researchers from conducting experiments. First, it is difficult and expensive to acquire the right subjects. For some experiments [17, 28] that address external metrics such as comprehensibility or usability, human subjects are required. For other experiments [8, 12, 19, 22, 24] that address internal metrics such as complexity or testability, software subjects are required. It is agreed that generating statistically significant ....
R. J. Miara, J.A. Musselman, J.A. Navarro, and B. Shneiderman. Program indentation and comprehensibility. Communications of the ACM, pages 861--867, 1983.
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....colour, and visual coding. One of the first methods of improving upon the look of code was the formatting of code. Many studies have been done on this subject. For instance, Love [5] determined that paragraphing of source code had no effect on subjects. Miara, Musselman, Navarro and Shneiderman [6], meanwhile, showed that certain levels of program indentation aided in program comprehension and user satisfaction. Even the use of capitalization was deemed useful, as Payne, Sime and Green [10] experimented by making the operation codes of a simple command language be in upper case, thereby ....
R. J. Miara, J. A. Musselman, J. A. Navarro and B. Shneiderman. Program Indentation and Comprehensibility. In Communications of the ACM, November 1983, Volume 26, Number 11, pp. 861-- 867.
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....much attention since the 1970s. It describes the use of indentation, spacing and layouts to make source code more presentable and readable to the programmers. The principal behind pretty printing is that the appearance of the source code can affect the comprehension process. Shneiderman et al. [Miar83] conducted a comprehension experiment and they reported that the use of indentation and block structured code strongly favour the comprehension process. They concluded that if no indentation is used in a large program, it would be a real hindrance and the program would be difficult to follow. The ....
Miara, R.J., Musselman, J.A., Navano, J.A. and Shneiderman, B. Program Indentation and Comprehensibility , Communications of the ACM. November, 1983. Vol. 26, No. 11, pages 861-867.
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....to automatically lay the source code out with, amongst other things, indentation to show the block structures of the programming language used. Whilst this is a simple thing to do, it has been empirically shown that the use of indentation makes code reading easier. Arab [Arab92] and Miara et al. [Miar83] document two such empirical studies of the use of indentation on program code. Tapp and Kazman [Tapp94] also carried out empirical studies, but to test the use of colour and font in aiding understanding (of program code) They found no conclusive evidence that either helped, although the subjects ....
R. J. Miara, J. A. Musselman, J. A. Navarro, B. Shneiderman. Program Indentation and Comprehensibility. Communications of the ACM, Vol. 26, No. 11, pp 861-867, November 1983.
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R.J. Miara, J.A. Musselman, J.A. Navarro, and B. Shneiderman, "Program Indentation and Comprehensibility," Comm. ACM, vol. 1983.
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Miara, R. et al. "Program indentation and comprehensibility". Communications of the ACM, vol. 26, 861-867, 1983.
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Miara R.J. et al.: "Program Indentation and Comprehensibility" Communications of the ACM, Vol. 26, No. 11, 861--867 (1983).
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