On the need for human-based empirical validation of techniques and tools for code clone analysis

Proceedings - International Conference on Software Engineering

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 61-62

  Carver, Jeffrey ^a   Chatterji, Debarshi ^a   Kraft, Nicholas A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA   (United States)

Author keywords

Clone management; Code clones; Human based empirical studies

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL ANALYSIS; ANALYTICAL DATA; CLONE MANAGEMENT; CODE CLONE; DEVELOPER BEHAVIOR; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; EMPIRICAL VALIDATION; TOOL PERFORMANCE;

CLONING; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

CODES (SYMBOLS);

EID: 79959547259     PISSN: 02705257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1985404.1985416     Document Type: Conference Paper

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