scholarly journals An empirical study on quality of Android applications written in Kotlin language

2019 ◽  
Vol 24 (6) ◽  
pp. 3356-3393 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bruno Góis Mateus ◽  
Matias Martinez
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Study ◽  
Android Applications

The Influence of the Established Links between University Courses on the Quality of Teaching

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 35-48
Author(s):  
Jiří Rybička ◽  
Petra Čačková
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Empirical Study ◽  
The Other ◽  
Coherent System ◽  
University Courses ◽  
Quality Of Teaching ◽  
Education Courses ◽  
Initial Knowledge

One of the tools to determine the recommended order of the courses to be taught is to set the prerequisites, that is, the conditions that have to be fulfilled before commencing the study of the course. The recommended sequence of courses is to follow logical links between their logical units, as the basic aim is to provide students with a coherent system according to the Comenius' principle of continuity. Declared continuity may, on the other hand, create organizational complications when passing through the study, as failure to complete one course may result in a whole sequence of forced deviations from the recommended curriculum and ultimately in the extension of the study period. This empirical study deals with the quantitative evaluation of the influence of the level of initial knowledge given by the previous study on the overall results in a certain follow-up course. In this evaluation, data were obtained that may slightly change the approach to determining prerequisites for higher education courses.

scholarly journals What do class comments tell us? An investigation of comment evolution and practices in Pharo Smalltalk

2021 ◽  
Vol 26 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
Pooja Rani ◽  
Sebastiano Panichella ◽  
Manuel Leuenberger ◽  
Mohammad Ghafari ◽  
Oscar Nierstrasz
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Study ◽  
Programming Languages ◽  
Program Comprehension ◽  
Assessment Tools ◽  
Support Program ◽  
Writing Style ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Types Of Information ◽  
Similar Code

Abstract Context Previous studies have characterized code comments in various programming languages, showing how high quality of code comments is crucial to support program comprehension activities, and to improve the effectiveness of maintenance tasks. However, very few studies have focused on understanding developer practices to write comments. None of them has compared such developer practices to the standard comment guidelines to study the extent to which developers follow the guidelines. Objective Therefore, our goal is to investigate developer commenting practices and compare them to the comment guidelines. Method This paper reports the first empirical study investigating commenting practices in Pharo Smalltalk. First, we analyze class comment evolution over seven Pharo versions. Then, we quantitatively and qualitatively investigate the information types embedded in class comments. Finally, we study the adherence of developer commenting practices to the official class comment template over Pharo versions. Results Our results show that there is a rapid increase in class comments in the initial three Pharo versions, while in subsequent versions developers added comments to both new and old classes, thus maintaining a similar code to comment ratio. We furthermore found three times as many information types in class comments as those suggested by the template. However, the information types suggested by the template tend to be present more often than other types of information. Additionally, we find that a substantial proportion of comments follow the writing style of the template in writing these information types, but they are written and formatted in a non-uniform way. Conclusion The results suggest the need to standardize the commenting guidelines for formatting the text, and to provide headers for the different information types to ensure a consistent style and to identify the information easily. Given the importance of high-quality code comments, we draw numerous implications for developers and researchers to improve the support for comment quality assessment tools.

Ecology and Quality of Life in Urban Slums: An Empirical Study, 2007

Social Change ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
pp. 159-161
Author(s):  
Bhaswati Das
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Empirical Study ◽  
Urban Slums

The quality of halal tourism destinations: An empirical study of Muslim foreign tourists

2020 ◽  
pp. 150-154
Author(s):  
S. Sumaryadi ◽  
R. Hurriyati ◽  
V. Gaffar ◽  
L.A. Wibowo
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Study ◽  
Tourism Destinations
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