Increasing clone maintenance support by unifying clone detection and refactoring activities

Information and Software Technology

Volumn 54, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 1297-1307

  Tairas, Robert ^a   Gray, Jeff ^b  

^a INRIA   (France)

^b Department of Computer Science   (United States)

Author keywords

Code clones; Maintenance; Refactoring

Indexed keywords

CLONE DETECTION; CODE CLONE; DETECTION CAPABILITY; INTEGRATED DEVELOPMENT ENVIRONMENT; MAINTENANCE PROCESS; OPEN SOURCES; PLUG-INS; PROCESS YIELD; REFACTORING ENGINES; REFACTORINGS; SOURCE CODES;

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; MAINTENANCE;

CLONING;

EID: 84865722976     PISSN: 09505849     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.infsof.2012.06.011     Document Type: Conference Paper

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