Software quality analysis by code clones in industrial legacy software

Proceedings - International Software Metrics Symposium

Volumn 2002-January, Issue , 2002, Pages 87-94

  Monden, A ^a   Nakae, D ^a   Kamiya, T ^b   Sato, S ^a,c   Matsumoto, K ^a  

^a NARA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^c NTT DATA   (Japan)

Author keywords

Aging; Cloning; Computer industry; Costs; Degradation; Electronic switching systems; Software maintenance; Software quality

Indexed keywords

AGING OF MATERIALS; CLONING; CODES (SYMBOLS); COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; COSTS; DEGRADATION;

CODE CLONE; COMPUTER INDUSTRY; ELECTRONIC SWITCHING SYSTEMS; LEGACY SOFTWARE; SOFTWARE QUALITY;

SOFTWARE RELIABILITY;

EID: 77954747683     PISSN: 15301435     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/METRIC.2002.1011328     Document Type: Conference Paper

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