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code understandability: a standalone construct

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Software engineering

how easily developers can understand a code snippet, measured by comprehension tasks and shown to differ from code readability.

In software engineering, code understandability refers to how easily developers can understand a code snippet, measured by comprehension tasks and shown to differ from code readability. This meaning comes from Scalabrino (2017) in 2017 32nd IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE).[1]

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  1. Scalabrino, S., Bavota, G., Vendome, C., Linares-Vasquez, M., Poshyvanyk, D., & Oliveto, R. (2017). Automatically assessing code understandability: How far are we? 2017 32nd IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE). https://doi.org/10.1109/ase.2017.8115654

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