Evaluating the conventional wisdom in clone removal: A genealogy-based empirical study

Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 1123-1130

  Zibran, Minhaz F ^a   Saha, Ripon K ^b   Roy, Chanchal K ^a   Schneider, Kevin A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Clone evolution; Clone removal; Reengineering; Refactoring

Indexed keywords

CLONE EVOLUTION; CLONE REMOVALS; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; REFACTORINGS; RESEARCH COMMUNITIES; RESEARCH QUESTIONS; SOFTWARE SYSTEMS;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; HISTORY; REENGINEERING; STATISTICAL TESTS;

CLONING;

EID: 84877970919     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2480362.2480573     Document Type: Conference Paper

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