Smart Formatter: Learning Coding Style from Existing Source Code

The quality of identifiers, the coding style and formatting are important aspects that influence program understandings and maintenance. This is confirmed by the presence of several approaches and tools aimed at supporting and improving the source code quality. This paper describes a tool named Smart Formatter that allows programmers to learn coding style rules from existing source code, and apply these rules to the code under development.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2007
• Where: ICSM
• Authors: Filippo Corbo, Concettina Del Grosso, Massimiliano Di Penta
• Keywords: Coding Style, ICSM 2007, Software Engineering, Source Code, Source Code Quality