5 Interesting Ideas from Research Papers about Java

5 Interesting Ideas from Research Papers about Java

There are a lot of research papers related with Java. If we type "Java programming", there are more than a million result in Google scholar. Some papers are very theoretical, some seem to be practical. I recently found some ideas are pretty interesting, so I collect them and create a list. These papers are from world top software engineering conferences.

1. Automatically Insert Blank Lines to Improve Code Readability

As a coding convention, programmers use blank line to separate different logical sections in a Java method. When a method does not contains blank lines, the technique presented in this paper can insert blank lines.

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2. Automatically Identify One of the Most Common Idioms - Loops-If

Code idioms are code fragments that recur frequently across software projects and have a single semantic purpose. This paper detect loops that contains a single if, such as the following:

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