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Why you should care

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Short identifiers were in existence as early variable mnemonics were limited to as few as six to eight characters leading to many developers abbreviating concepts in their variable names. However, in the past thiry years since 2009, there has been a steady increase in permitted name length and an increase in identifier length. Due to such advancements, performance and memory is increasing resulting in making short identifiers obsolete. Short identifiers also decreases code agility and leave room for bugs.

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Business Impacts

It is not recommended have short identifiers as they are outdated, resulting in greater utilization of costs. The code will be unappealing to clients and developers in the near future as well resulting in a loss of time.[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”32px”]CostTime / Effort[/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_empty_space height=”12px”][vc_empty_space height=”32px”][vc_single_image image=”5362″ img_link_large=”” img_link_target=”_self” img_size=”full” alignment=”none”][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/2″][vc_column_text pl=”0″ pr=”0″ pt=”0″ pb=”0″]

CAST Recommendations

CAST recommends avoiding smaller functions and identifiers by having them at a more reasonable length so that it won’t cause confusion to developers. Since collaborative development is far more common, it is recommended to have code with properly formatted functions and identifiers. This reduces confusion between developers in a team and that would greatly save time and costs for the business. This is vital for Agile Software Development[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/2″][vc_column_text pl=”0″ pr=”0″ pt=”0″ pb=”0″ color=”#dd3333″]

References

http://evergreen.loyola.edu/chm/www/Publications/otherpub/SCP2009.pdf

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How we detect

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This code insight shows that procedures, functions and packages should have significant identifiers names.

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