Actively comparing clones inside the code editor

Proceedings - International Conference on Software Engineering

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 9-16

  Jacob, Ferosh ^a   Hou, Daqing ^b   Jablonski, Patricia ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^b Clarkson University   (United States)

^c CLARKSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

code clone; code comparison; copy and paste programming; differencing tools; Eclipse integrated development environment; Java; software evolution; software maintenance

Indexed keywords

CODE CLONE; CODE COMPARISON; COPY-AND-PASTE; ECLIPSE INTEGRATED DEVELOPMENT ENVIRONMENT; JAVA SOFTWARE; SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE;

CLONING; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; COPYING; JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; MAINTAINABILITY; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; WEB SERVICES;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE;

EID: 77954699137     PISSN: 02705257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1808901.1808903     Document Type: Conference Paper

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