Identifying clones in the Linux kernel

Proceedings - 1st IEEE International Workshop on Source Code Analysis and Manipulation

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages 90-97

  Casazza, G ^b   Antoniol, G ^a   Villano, U ^a   Merlo, E ^c   Di Penta, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SANNIO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^c ÉCOLE POLYTECHNIQUE DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

clone detection; metric extraction; source code analysis

Indexed keywords

CLONING; CODES (SYMBOLS); COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES;

CLONE DETECTION; CODE ANALYSIS; LINES OF CODE; MULTI-PLATFORM; SINGLE PLATFORM; SOFTWARE SYSTEMS; SOURCE CODE ANALYSIS; SOURCE CODES;

LINUX;

EID: 53849102795     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SCAM.2001.972670     Document Type: Conference Paper

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