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Recognizing authors: an examination of the consistent programmer hypothesis
2010
Software testing, verification & reliability
Software developers have individual styles of programming. This paper empirically examines the validity of the consistent programmer hypothesis: that a facet or set of facets exist that can be used to recognize the author of a given program based on programming style. The paper further postulates that the programming style means that different test strategies work better for some programmers (or programming styles) than for others. For example, all-edges adequate tests may detect faults for
doi:10.1002/stvr.412
fatcat:6brwmcqnl5e4jg2vrmyuvtbwau