Sample Knowledge Components

This page maintains a list of knowledge components (KCs) from the clean code analysis and refactoring domain. It presents a KC inventory concerned with assigning meaningful names to identifiers in code and creating clean functions. It also acts as supplementary material to the Challenges of Knowledge Component Modeling: A Software Engineering Case Study paper.

KC Id	KC Name	Parent KC Id
N01	Assign meaningful names to identifiers in code	/
N02	Follow team conventions when assigning names	N01
N03	Avoid meaningless noise words	N01
N04	Formulate an appropriate word type	N01
N05	Utilize the terminology from the problem domain	N01
N06	Analyze the broader context in which an identifier exists	N01
N07	Formulate a name on the appropriate level of abstraction	N01
F01	Create clean functions	/
F02	Segment a long function into regions of cohesive logic	F01
F03	Reduce a function’s complexity	F01
F04	Reorganize logic to reduce its complexity	F03
F05	Extract sophisticated logic into a separate function	F03
F06	Name sophisticated logic	F03
F07	Shorten a function’s parameter list with a suitable strategy	F01
F08	Move the function into a more suitable module	F07
F09	Promote a parameter into a class field	F07
F10	Encapsulate a set of tightly-coupled parameters	F07
F11	Determine the semantic purpose of a function	F01