Analyzing and forecasting near-miss clones in evolving software: An empirical study

Proceedings - 2011 16th IEEE International Conference on Engineering of Complex Computer Systems, ICECCS 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 295-304

  Zibran, Minhaz F ^a   Saha, Ripon K ^a   Asaduzzaman, Muhammad ^a   Roy, Chanchal K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENTAL ERROR; CODE CLONE; CODE FRAGMENTS; COST ESTIMATIONS; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE SYSTEMS; PROGRAM SIZE; PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; SOFTWARE SYSTEMS;

CLONING; COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE; DATABASE SYSTEMS; JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; OPEN SYSTEMS;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

EID: 79960520851     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICECCS.2011.36     Document Type: Conference Paper

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