An assessment of type-3 clones as detected by state-of-the-art tools

9th IEEE International Working Conference on Source Code Analysis and Manipulation, SCAM 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 67-76

  Tiarks, Rebecca ^a   Koschke, Rainer ^a   Falke, Raimar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Clone categorization; Software clones; Type 3 clones

Indexed keywords

CODE REUSE; RESEARCH ISSUES;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE REUSABILITY; SYNTACTICS;

CLONING;

EID: 72349089357     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SCAM.2009.16     Document Type: Conference Paper

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