Method and implementation for investigating code clones in a software system

Information and Software Technology

Volumn 49, Issue 9-10, 2007, Pages 985-998

  Higo, Yoshiki ^a   Kamiya, Toshihiro ^b   Kusumoto, Shinji ^a   Inoue, Katsuro ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

Author keywords

Code clone; Software maintenance; Software metrics; Software understanding

Indexed keywords

CODES (SYMBOLS); COMPUTER AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE; LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS;

CODE CLONES; SOFTWARE METRICS;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

EID: 34347383992     PISSN: 09505849     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.infsof.2006.10.005     Document Type: Article

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