Affiliation:
1. University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Abstract
Poorly written documentation adversely affects the acquisition, development, use, maintenance, management and control of application software. Readability formulas, comprised of certain linguistic variables, provide rough estimates of the potential difficulty of reading material. This paper illustrates the application of well-known readability formulas in a readability assessment of the 1985 ANSI COBOL Standard. The paper summarizes certain limitations of readability formulas and concludes with suggestions concerning the use of readability formulas in the evaluation of computer-related material.
Publisher
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Subject
Computer Networks and Communications,Management Information Systems
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