A controlled experiment on software clones

IEEE International Conference on Program Comprehension

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 219-228

  Harder, Jan ^a   Tiarks, Rebecca ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; SOFTWARE TESTING;

CONTROLLED EXPERIMENT; HISTORICAL DATA; HUMAN INTERACTIONS; RETROSPECTIVE ANALYSIS; SOFTWARE ARCHIVE; SOFTWARE CLONES; SOFTWARE SYSTEMS; SOURCE CODES;

CLONING;

EID: 84865045123     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/icpc.2012.6240491     Document Type: Conference Paper

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