Authors
Jürgen Börstler, Harald Störrle, Daniel Toll, Jelle van Assema, Rodrigo Duran, Sara Hooshangi, Johan Jeuring, Hieke Keuning, Carsten Kleiner, Bonnie MacKellar
Publication date
2018/1/30
Conference
Proceedings of the 22nd Annual Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education: Working Group Reports
Pages
70-85
Description
Context. Code quality is a key issue in software development. The ability to develop high quality software is therefore a key learning goal of computing programs. However, there are no universally accepted measures to assess the quality of code and current standards are considered weak. Furthermore, there are many facets to code quality. Defining and explaining the concept of code quality is therefore a challenge faced by many educators.
Objectives. In this working group, we investigated code quality as perceived by students, educators, and professional developers, in particular, the differences in their views of code quality and which quality aspects they consider as more or less important. Furthermore, we investigated their sources for information about code quality and its assessment.
Methods. We interviewed 34 students, educators and professional developers regarding their perceptions of code quality. For …
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