An empirical study of long-lived code clones

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 6603 LNCS, Issue , 2011, Pages 432-446

  Cai, Dongxiang ^a   Kim, Miryung ^b  

^a HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

code clones; empirical study; refactoring; Software evolution

Indexed keywords

CODE CLONE; EMPIRICAL INVESTIGATION; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; EMPIRICAL STUDY; HIGHLY-CORRELATED; LEVEL DISTRIBUTION; LONG LIFETIME; LONG-TERM GOALS; OPEN SOURCE PROJECTS; RECOMMENDATION SYSTEMS; REFACTORINGS; SOFTWARE EVOLUTION; SPATIAL CHARACTERISTICS; SURVIVAL TIME;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

CLONING;

EID: 79953174967     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-19811-3_30     Document Type: Conference Paper

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