Cloning by accident: An empirical study of source code cloning across software systems

2005 International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering, ISESE 2005

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 376-385

  Al Ekram, Raihan ^a   Kapser, Cory ^a   Holt, Richard ^a   Godfrey, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLONING ACTIVITY; OPEN SOURCE PROJECTS; PROBLEM DOMAIN; SOURCE CODE CLONING;

COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; OPEN SYSTEMS;

SECURITY SYSTEMS;

EID: 33749047026     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ISESE.2005.1541846     Document Type: Conference Paper

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