• DocumentCode
    1356209
  • Title

    Job Security

  • Author

    Spinellis, Diomidis

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Manage. Sci. & Technol., Athens Univ. of Econ. & Bus., Athens, Greece
  • Volume
    26
  • Issue
    5
  • fYear
    2009
  • Firstpage
    14
  • Lastpage
    15
  • Abstract
    In this paper, job security in code design is discussed. Techniques on how to make codes unreadable is mentioned. Like when naming variables, methods, fields, and classes, the readers can use some languages such as Java that is well-established naming conventions regarding capitalization and the joining of words. The author also suggest that the reader can make use of many IDEs that insert boilerplate comments at the beginning of each method and class. This column also suggest that the more unreadable the code the more indispensable a programmer with his job.
  • Keywords
    DP industry; design engineering; software engineering; unemployment; Java; code design; job security; programmer; Data security; Debugging; Information services; Internet; Job design; Packaging; Programming profession; Protocols; Testing; Web sites; analyzability; coupling; design; job security; maintainability; software engineering; stability; testability;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Software, IEEE
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0740-7459
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/MS.2009.131
  • Filename
    5222787