Christian Bird

Appendix to Beliefs, Practices and Personalities of Software Engineers

2015

This technical report is a companion to the paper “Beliefs, Practices and Personalities of Software Engineers: A Survey in a Large Software Company”. The technical report includes (1) the complete survey text and (2) the …

Suggesting accurate method and class names

2015

Descriptive names are a vital part of readable, and hence maintainable, code. Recent progress on automatically suggesting names for local variables tantalizes with the prospect of replicating that success with method and class names. However, …