Analysis of the Linux kernel evolution using code clone coverage

Proceedings - ICSE 2007 Workshops: Fourth International Workshop on Mining Software Repositories, MSR 2007

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages

  Livieri, Simone ^a   Higo, Yoshiki ^a   Matsushita, Makoto ^a   Inoue, Katsuro ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLONING; COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; DATA REDUCTION; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

CODE CLONE COVERAGE; CODE CLONE DETECTION TOOLS; LINUX KERNEL EVOLUTION;

COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS;

EID: 34548718215     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/MSR.2007.1     Document Type: Conference Paper

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