File cloning in open source Java projects: The good, the bad, and the ugly

IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance, ICSM

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 283-292

  Ossher, Joel ^a   Sajnani, Hitesh ^a   Lopes, Cristina ^a  

^a Ringgold Standard Institution Informatics   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CODE CLONE DETECTION; JAVA DEVELOPMENT; ONLINE REPOSITORIES; OPEN SOURCE REPOSITORIES; OPEN SOURCES;

CLONING; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE;

JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE;

EID: 83455169588     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICSM.2011.6080795     Document Type: Conference Paper

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