Measuring the efficacy of code clone information in a bug localization task: An empirical study

International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 20-29

  Chatterji, Debarshi ^a   Carver, Jeffrey C ^a   Massengill, Beverly ^b   Oslin, Jason ^a   Kraft, Nicholas A ^a  

^a Department of Computer Science   (United States)

^b Tennessee Technological University   (United States)

Author keywords

Bug localization; Clone report; Empirical studies; Software clones; Software maintenance

Indexed keywords

CODES (SYMBOLS); COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE; DEFECTS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; STUDENTS;

BUG LOCALIZATIONS; CLONE REPORTS; CODE CLONE DETECTION; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; GRADUATE STUDENTS; INDUSTRIAL EXPERIENCE; PERFORMING MAINTENANCE; SOFTWARE CLONES;

CLONING;

EID: 84858732731     PISSN: 19493770     EISSN: 19493789     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/esem.2011.10     Document Type: Conference Paper

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