B.S.Goryachkin1, S.V. Chernenkiy2, M.S. Sarosek3

1-3 Bauman Moscow State Technical University (Moscow, Russia)
 

Writing a program in Java is not always an easy process. Moreover, when creating it, it is always necessary to keep in mind the requirement that any other programmer who will be engaged in its support would be able to successfully do his job, i.e. it is easy to read the written program code. Compliance with ergonomic requirements plays a great role in the issue of human perception of program code. Development of a methodology for creating an ergonomics certificate for Java program code.

The concept of ergonomic program code is formulated; requirements, criteria and parameters of ergonomics of the software product are defined. On the basis of numerical metrics and usability methods, acceptable values of these parameters were identified, which formed the basis of the certificate of ergonomics of the Java program code.

An application has been developed for automated evaluation of the Java program code and creation of a certificate of its ergonomics.

In this article, based on the Java Code Conventions, ergonomic standards and regulatory documents on code design, the authors formulated the concept of ergonomic program code, as well as the criteria for evaluating the ergonomics of a program in the Java language. To determine the normalized values of the numerical characteristics of these indicators, a study was conducted, the results of which formed the basis of the Java program code ergonomics certificate template. An application was also developed for the automated evaluation of the Java program code and the creation of a certificate of its ergonomics.

Despite the fact that this paper considers the creation of an ergonomics certificate for Java code, the developed methodology can be adapted to programs written in other programming languages.

Goryachkin B.S., Chernenkiy S.V., Sarosek M.S. Java code ergonomics certificate. Dynamics of complex systems. 2022. V. 16. № 1. P. 13−21. DOI: 10.18127/j19997493-202201-02 (In Russian).

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