Software analysis by code clones in open source software

Journal of Computer Information Systems

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 1-11

  Uchida, Shinji ^a   Monden, Akito ^b   Ohsugi, Naoki ^b   Kamiya, Toshihiro ^c   Matsumoto, Ken Ichi ^b   Kudo, Hideo ^d  

^a KINKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NARA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^d Osaka Seikei University   (Japan)

Author keywords

Software Maintenance; Software Measurement; Software Metrics

Indexed keywords

C LANGUAGE; CODE CLONES; OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE; SOFTWARE MEASUREMENT; SOFTWARE METRICS;

CODES (SYMBOLS); COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE; MAINTAINABILITY; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; PERSONNEL; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

EID: 18744370756     PISSN: 08874417     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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