Measuring Readable Code

Ever wonder how readable people find your code? Do you wish there was a more objective way to measure this?

Now there is. Introducing Readable Code, a site targeted at measuring the time it takes to understand a piece of code.

How It Works

The time it took to understand the sample will be recorded, and you will be taken to a page averaging all of these times.

Call For Help

As you may be able to tell, the site is currently more of a proof of concept than a valid experiment. Try it out and let me know what you think in the comments of this post.

Also, I’d like to add some sort of qualitative measure, something to gauge the level of understanding, rather than just the time, let me know in the comments. I’ve had a couple of ideas, but most of them add more complexity to the design than I’m happy with.

Motivation

There are a lot of people in the software development community which are loudly asserting contradicting advice on what makes code readable. I’m not sure what the answer is in a lot of these cases, and am tired of these people arguing without objective data. My hope is that, by providing a place for these ideas to be measured, we can finally get an objective answer.

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