An AHP-Based Evaluation Index System of Coding Standards

Compliance with coding standards is becoming an important evaluating index of a software engineer¿s teamwork capability and international cooperation capability. Unreadable and non-reusable program code, high defect density, and expensive maintenance cost are changing the mindset of managers working in software companies. The best place to solve this problem should be in an educational environment such as college where students begin to write their introductory programs. In order to propose an effective and quantitative evaluation index system, and to gradually improve students¿ ability to comply with coding standards, a simplified version of coding standards was presented. By utilizing questionnaire surveys and analytical hierarchy process (AHP), weights of the indices in the evaluation system were determined. This evaluation index system was proved quite practical in the teaching process of PSP course.