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This paper describes the results of a large (+1100 responses) survey of professional software developers concerning standards for naming source code methods. The various standards for source code method names are derived from and supported…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-03-01 Reem S. AlSuhaibani , Christian D. Newman , Michael J. Decker , Michael L. Collard , Jonathan I. Maletic

Reproducibility of computational studies is a hallmark of scientific methodology. It enables researchers to build with confidence on the methods and findings of others, reuse and extend computational pipelines, and thereby drive scientific…

A large-scale evaluation for current naming approaches substantiates that such approaches are accurate. However, it is less known about which categories of method names work well via such naming approaches and how's the performance of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-01-24 Weidong Wang , Yujian Kang , Dian Li

Jupyter notebooks enable developers to interleave code snippets with rich-text and in-line visualizations. Data scientists use Jupyter notebook as the de-facto standard for creating and sharing machine-learning based solutions, primarily…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-06-12 Ashwin Prasad Shivarpatna Venkatesh , Samkutty Sabu , Mouli Chekkapalli , Jiawei Wang , Li Li , Eric Bodden

Jupyter Notebook is a popular tool among data analysts and scientists for working with data. It provides a way to combine code, documentation, and visualizations in a single, interactive environment, facilitating code reuse. While code…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-02-24 Mingke Yang , Yuming Zhou , Bixin Li , Yutian Tang

Computational notebooks -- such as Jupyter or Colab -- combine text and data analysis code. They have become ubiquitous in the world of data science and exploratory data analysis. Since these notebooks present a different programming…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-07-20 Derek Robinson , Neil A. Ernst , Enrique Larios Vargas , Margaret-Anne D. Storey

Computational notebooks are the primary coding tools for data scientists, but their code quality remains understudied and often poor. Given the importance of maintainability and reusability, enhancing code understandability is essential.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-06-19 Mojtaba Mostafavi Ghahfarokhi , Alireza Asadi , Arash Asgari , Bardia Mohammadi , Abbas Heydarnoori , Masih Beigi Rizi

There has been a large focus in recent years on making assets in scientific research findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable, collectively known as the FAIR principles. A particular area of focus lies in applying these principles…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2021-11-02 Robin A Richardson , Remzi Celebi , Sven van der Burg , Djura Smits , Lars Ridder , Michel Dumontier , Tobias Kuhn

It is good practice to name test methods such that they are comprehensible to developers; they must be written in such a way that their purpose and functionality are clear to those who will maintain them. Unfortunately, there is little…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-03-17 Anthony Peruma , Emily Hu , Jiajun Chen , Eman Abdullah Alomar , Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer , Christian D. Newman

Despite the widespread adoption of computational notebooks, little is known about best practices for their usage in collaborative contexts. In this paper, we fill this gap by eliciting a catalog of best practices for collaborative data…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-02-16 Luigi Quaranta , Fabio Calefato , Filippo Lanubile

Naming is very important in software development, as names are often the only vehicle of meaning about what the code is intended to do. A recent study on how developers choose names collected the names given by different developers for the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-02-16 Rachel Alpern , Ido Lazer , Issar Tzachor , Hanit Hakim , Sapir Weissbuch , Dror G. Feitelson

Unit tests are an important artifact that supports the software development process in several ways. For example, when a test fails, its name can provide the first step towards understanding the purpose of the test. Unfortunately, unit…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-05-20 Jianwei Wu , James Clause

Code search is an important and frequent activity for developers using computational notebooks (e.g., Jupyter). The flexibility of notebooks brings challenges for effective code search, where classic search interfaces for traditional…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2021-02-03 Xingjun Li , Yuanxin Wang , Hong Wang , Yang Wang , Jian Zhao

Variable names are important to understand and maintain code. If a variable name and the value stored in the variable do not match, then the program suffers from a name-value inconsistency, which is due to one of two situations that…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-12-14 Jibesh Patra , Michael Pradel

Jupyter notebooks represent a unique format for programming - a combination of code and Markdown with rich formatting, separated into individual cells. We propose to perceive a Jupyter Notebook cell as a simplified and raw version of a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-01-03 Sergey Titov , Yaroslav Golubev , Timofey Bryksin

The quality of scientific code is a critical concern for the research community. Poorly written code can result in irreproducible results, incorrect findings, and slower scientific progress. In this study, we evaluate scientific code…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Shun Kashiwa , Ayla Kurdak , Savitha Ravi , Ridhi Srikanth , Angel Thakur , Sonia Chandra , Jonathan Truong , Michael Coblenz

Interactive notebooks, such as Jupyter, have revolutionized the field of data science by providing an integrated environment for data, code, and documentation. However, their adoption by robotics researchers and model developers has been…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2024-05-15 Rolando Garcia

Method names are crucial to program comprehension and maintenance. Recently, many approaches have been proposed to automatically recommend method names and detect inconsistent names. Despite promising, their results are still sub-optimal…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-03-13 Jie Zhu , Lingwei Li , Li Yang , Xiaoxiao Ma , Chun Zuo

Computational notebooks, such as Jupyter Notebook, have become data scientists' de facto programming environments. Many visualization researchers and practitioners have developed interactive visualization tools that support notebooks, yet…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-04-01 Zijie J. Wang , David Munechika , Seongmin Lee , Duen Horng Chau

Engaging students in teaching foundational Computer Science concepts is vital for the student's continual success in more advanced topics in the field. An idea of a series of Jupyter notebooks was conceived as a way of using Bloom's…

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