How clones are maintained: An empirical study

Proceedings of the European Conference on Software Maintenance and Reengineering, CSMR

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 81-90

  Aversano, Lerina ^a   Cerulo, Luigi ^a   Di Penta, Massimiliano ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SANNIO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Clone detection; Mining software repositories; Software evolution

Indexed keywords

CODES (SYMBOLS); DATA MINING; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

CLONE DETECTION; MINING SOFTWARE REPOSITORIES; SOFTWARE EVOLUTION; SOURCE CODE CLONING;

CLONING;

EID: 34547677997     PISSN: 15345351     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CSMR.2007.26     Document Type: Conference Paper

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