Searching for better configurations: A rigorous approach to clone evaluation

2013 9th Joint Meeting of the European Software Engineering Conference and the ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering, ESEC/FSE 2013 - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 455-465

  Wang, Tiantian ^a   Harman, Mark ^b   Jia, Yue ^b   Krinke, Jens ^b  

^a HARBIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Clone detection; Genetic algorithm; SBSE

Indexed keywords

CHOICE PROBLEMS; CLONE DETECTION; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; ENGINEERING ACTIVITIES; EVALUATION REPORTS; RIGOROUS APPROACH; SBSE;

CLONING; GENETIC ALGORITHMS;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 84883701791     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2491411.2491420     Document Type: Conference Paper

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