An empirical study on inconsistent changes to code clones at the release level

Science of Computer Programming

Volumn 77, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 760-776

  Bettenburg, Nicolas ^a   Shang, Weiyi ^a   Ibrahim, Walid M ^a   Adams, Bram ^a   Zou, Ying ^a   Hassan, Ahmed E ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Clone detection; Maintainability; Maintenance management; Reuse models; Software engineering; Software evolution

Indexed keywords

CLONE DETECTION; CODE CLONE; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; END USERS; FINE-GRAINED ANALYSIS; MAINTENANCE MANAGEMENT; OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE SYSTEMS; REUSE MODEL; SIGNIFICANT IMPACTS; SOFTWARE DEFECTS; SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT PROCESS; SOFTWARE EVOLUTION; SOFTWARE PRODUCTS; SOFTWARE QUALITY;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; MAINTAINABILITY; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

CLONING;

EID: 84858996164     PISSN: 01676423     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scico.2010.11.010     Document Type: Conference Paper

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