Improving Legibility and Understandability of Source Code by Using Korean Naming Convention Tool

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

The larger the software, the larger the size of the developing organization.( The software size is growing. Therefore, there is a growing software development organization.) Such increase in size of development teams lead to communication gaps between developers, which renders the legibility and understandability of source codes critical. Programmers interpret code software based on the identifiers of the source code. Disorderly nomenclature of identifiers can make it difficult to understand their meaning, requiring additional time and manpower and thereby incurring higher development costs. Moreover, as source codes are written in English, Korean programmers face the challenge of the language barrier when understanding source codes. In order to solve this issue a Korean naming convention tool can be used, which would entail the following: the natural language process can be applied to the identifiers to categorize the data, which in turn would undergo morphological analysis and matched with Korean words to be Romanized in their notation. Applying this method is expected to enhance Korean programmers' ability to read and understand source codes.

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