Developer experience · Qualitative interview study with inductive coding of abstract and concrete discussions of code quality.
Developers talking about code quality
Empirical Software Engineering · 2023
Summary
Developers discussed multiple quality aspects and recommendations; the paper emphasizes alignment between practitioner perceptions and formal/metric-based quality measures.
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Use developer language and concrete code scenarios to define quality features, onboarding, diagnostics, and explainability in tooling.
Reported result
What the study found
Developers discussed multiple quality aspects and recommendations; the paper emphasizes alignment between practitioner perceptions and formal/metric-based quality measures.
Research question
What the authors investigated
How do developers perceive code quality, which aspects matter, and what do they recommend for achieving it?
Design
Qualitative interview study with inductive coding of abstract and concrete discussions of code quality.
Sample and setting
34 professional developers, programming teachers, and students; average 5.8 years professional-developer experience.
Scope and transfer
Limitations to keep in view
Interview perceptions are self-reported and context-dependent; sample includes teachers/students as well as professionals.
Research sources
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