A framework for studying clones in large software systems

SCAM 2007 - Proceedings 7th IEEE International Working Conference on Source Code Analysis and Manipulation

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 203-212

  Zhen, Ming Jiang ^a   Hassan, Ahmed E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSTRACTING; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DATA VISUALIZATION; EDGE DETECTION; GENETIC ENGINEERING; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; INSPECTION EQUIPMENT;

ABSTRACTION LEVELS; CASE STUDIES; CLONE DETECTIONS; CODE CLONINGS; CODE SEGMENTS; LARGE SOFTWARE SYSTEMS; LARGE SYSTEMS; LEADING EDGES; LINUX KERNELS; SOFTWARE SYSTEMS; SOURCE CODES; VISUALIZATION TOOLS;

CLONING;

EID: 47749155579     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SCAM.2007.19     Document Type: Conference Paper

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