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Coding Style Score Visualization Using Facial Expression  

Ji, Jeong-Hoon (부산대학교 컴퓨터공학과)
Lee, Yun-Jung (부산대학교 컴퓨터공학과)
Woo, Gyun (부산대학교 컴퓨터공학과)
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Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications / v.37, no.7, 2010 , pp. 578-583 More about this Journal
Abstract
This paper presents an automated visualization system, called StyleVisualizer, which checks the coding style of source codes and visualizes the coding style score using facial expression. Our system represents some kinds of facial expressions according to the evaluated score of the code style: A smile face means that the source code follows coding standards correctly. To measure the effectiveness of the StyleVisualizer, some experiments have been conducted on two class students in an applied computer course. In the experiments, we have compared the error ratio for obeying the coding standards when the StyleVisualizer was used or not. According to the experimental results, the error ratio with the StyleVisualizer was reduced above 30% than that without it. We expect that our system can encourage the students to obey the coding standards by providing the feedback of the visualized faces corresponding to their programs, resulting in high readable programs.
Keywords
Visualization; Coding Standard; Coding Style; Program Readability; Facial Expression;
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