An information retrieval process to aid in the analysis of code clones

Empirical Software Engineering

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 33-56

  Tairas, Robert ^a   Gray, Jeff ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

Code clone analysis; Information retrieval; Latent semantic indexing; Program comprehension

Indexed keywords

INDEXING (OF INFORMATION); INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION SERVICES; INFORMATION THEORY; INSPECTION EQUIPMENT; LSI CIRCUITS; SEMANTICS;

CLONE DETECTIONS; CODE CLONE ANALYSIS; CODE FRAGMENTS; DETECTION TOOLS; EXPERIMENTAL EVALUATIONS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL TECHNIQUES; LATENT SEMANTIC INDEXING; MICROSOFT WINDOWS; PROGRAM COMPREHENSION; SOURCE CODES;

CLONING;

EID: 58149489336     PISSN: 13823256     EISSN: 15737616     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10664-008-9089-1     Document Type: Article

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