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Computer Science ›› 2020, Vol. 47 ›› Issue (3): 1-4.doi: 10.11896/jsjkx.200200009

Special Issue: Intelligent Software Engineering

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Research Status and Development Trend of Identifier Normalization

ZHANG Jing-xuan1,JIANG He2   

  1. (College of Computer Science and Technology, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing 211106, China)1;
    (School of Software, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, Liaoning 116600, China)2
  • Received:2019-12-05 Online:2020-03-15 Published:2020-03-30
  • About author:ZHANG Jing-xuan,born in 1988,Ph.D,assistant professor,is member of China Computer Federation.His main research interests include mining software repositories and so on. JIANG He,born in 1980,Ph.D,professor,Ph.D.supervisor,is Distinguished member of China Computer Federation.His main research interests include mining software repositories and intelligent software engineering.
  • Supported by:
    This work was supported by the National Key Research and Development Plan of China (2018YFB1003900) and National Natural Science Foundation of China (61902181).

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Abstract: As an important research content of source code analysis and comprehension,identifier normalization is the leading field of the current research of software engineering.Identifier normalization aims to parse identifiers into natural language terms so as to improve the understandability and maintainability of source code.There are generally two challenging steps in identifier normalization:identifier splitting and identifier expansion.This paper introduced the research status of identifier normalization in detail,conducted an in-depth analysis of the research status,and summarized the difficulties and deficiencies of the existing work.At the same time,in order to solve the difficulties and challenges in identifier normalization,this paper summarized and prospected the feasible solutions and future development trends in this field,hoping to guide more researchers into this important research field.

Key words: Abbreviation expansion, Identifier normalization, Identifier splitting, Software evolution, Source code analysis

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  • TP311.5
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