An empirical study on inconsistent changes to code clones at release level

Proceedings - Working Conference on Reverse Engineering, WCRE

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 85-94

  Bettenburg, Nicolas ^a   Shang, Weyi ^a   Ibrahim, Walid ^a   Adams, Bram ^a   Zou, Ying ^a   Hassan, Ahmed E ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Maintenance management; Reuse models; Scalability, maintainability; Software engineering

Indexed keywords

CODE CLONE; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; FINE-GRAINED ANALYSIS; MAINTENANCE MANAGEMENT; OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE SYSTEMS; QUALITY OF SOFTWARES; REUSE MODEL; REUSE MODELS; SOFTWARE DEFECTS; SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT PROCESS; SOFTWARE QUALITY;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE REUSABILITY; MAINTAINABILITY; MODELS; OPEN SYSTEMS; REENGINEERING; REVERSE ENGINEERING; SCALABILITY; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION;

EID: 73449140451     PISSN: 10951350     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/WCRE.2009.51     Document Type: Conference Paper

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