Determining the provenance of software artifacts

Proceedings - International Conference on Software Engineering

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 65-66

  Godfrey, Michael W ^a   German, Daniel M ^b   Davies, Julius ^b   Hindle, Abram ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bertillonage; Code evolution; Code fingerprints; Provenance

Indexed keywords

BERTILLONAGE; CODE CLONE; CODE EVOLUTION; CODE FINGERPRINTS; MANUAL EXAMINATION; POSITION PAPERS; PROVENANCE; SEARCH SPACES; SOFTWARE ARTIFACTS; SOFTWARE CLONE DETECTION; SOFTWARE CLONES;

CLONING;

EID: 79959557630     PISSN: 02705257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1985404.1985418     Document Type: Conference Paper

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