Program readability score reflects the candidate's ability to write code according to programming best practices. This highlights the importance of writing code as per set industry standards which enhances the scalability, readability and in general performance of the code. The score also tries to identify potential bugs or lines which could cause potential bugs when deployed on a live system from the way the code is written and penalizes the candidate for the same.

Automata^® Pro is a path breaking simulated programming assessment tool which allows a candidate to write a programming code in a simulated environment and evaluates programming code on correctness , code quality, efficiency of execution to provide objective norm based scores. The recently added feature, program readability score goes a step beyond the traditional scoring method of 1 and 0 for correct and incorrect code respectively and provides additional information about the quality of code to the interviewer.