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Complying with Coding Standards or Retaining Programming Style: A Quality Outlook at Source Code Level
Harbin Institute of Technology,
Harbin Institute of Technology
Harbin Institute of Technology
- 1 Harbin Institute of Technology,
- 2 Harbin Institute of Technology
- 3 Harbin Institute of Technology
Journal of Software Engineering and Applications·Volume 01 (2008)·Pages 88–91·Published 9 December 2008·DOI10.4236/jsea.2008.11013
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Abstract
In order to make most software engineers and managers pay more attention to software quality at source level, two confusing terms-coding standard and programming style-were reviewed and compared. An evolutionary model of quality assurance at source code level was proposed, which implies that coding standard should be better accepted and more emphasized than programming style. Our current researches on evaluating the compliance with coding standards will likely make the strategy of quality assurance at source code level more operable.
KeywordsCoding StandardsProgramming StyleSource CodeQuality Assurance (QA)Evaluation Index System
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