Cloning practices: Why developers clone and what can be changed

IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance, ICSM

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 285-294

  Zhang, Gang ^a   Peng, Xin ^a   Xing, Zhenchang ^b   Zhao, Wenyun ^a  

^a FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Clone context; Clone lifecycle; Industrial study; Software clones

Indexed keywords

CLONE CONTEXT; CODE ANALYSIS; CODE CLONE; CODE SEGMENTS; CRITICAL POINTS; EMPIRICAL DATA; INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT; INDUSTRIAL STUDY; MAINTENANCE PROBLEM; QUESTIONNAIRE SURVEYS; SOFTWARE CLONES;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE; INDUSTRY; LIFE CYCLE;

CLONING;

EID: 84873121846     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICSM.2012.6405284     Document Type: Conference Paper

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