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code readability: a standalone construct

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Software engineering

how easily people can read and understand source code, which can be predicted from simple local features and relates to code quality.

In software engineering, code readability refers to how easily people can read and understand source code, which can be predicted from simple local features and relates to code quality. This meaning comes from Buse (2010) in IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering.[1]

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Buse, R. P. L., & Weimer, W. R. (2010). Learning a Metric for Code Readability. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, 36(4), 546-558. https://doi.org/10.1109/tse.2009.70

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