Software readability
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Speaker: Kirill Bochkarev (JetBrains Research, ICTL)
Readability of a written text is the quality of being easy to read. There are well-established methods of measuring text readability. These methods can help one to select appropriately challenging school literature or write more concisely in popular text editors.
Software, to some extent, is also a written text. However, the readability of code is very different from that of natural languages and must not be mixed up with complexity. Code is highly structured, and consists of elements serving various purposes, such as design, documentation, and logic.
In this talk, Kirill will give an overview of existing approaches to measuring code readability and discuss the challenges of this task.
Software readability