Clone region descriptors: Representing and tracking duplication in source code

ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Duala Ekoko, Ekwa ^a   Robillard, Martin P ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Clone detection; Clone management; Code clones; Refactoring; Source code duplication

Indexed keywords

CLONE DETECTION; CLONE MANAGEMENT; CODE CLONE; REFACTORINGS; SOURCE CODES;

CODES (SYMBOLS); COMPUTER SOFTWARE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE; INSPECTION EQUIPMENT;

CLONING;

EID: 77954339263     PISSN: 1049331X     EISSN: 15577392     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1767751.1767754     Document Type: Article

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