Cloning: The need to understand developer intent

2013 7th International Workshop on Software Clones, IWSC 2013 - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 14-15

  Chatterji, Debarshi ^a   Carver, Jeffrey C ^a   Kraft, Nicholas A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA   (United States)

Author keywords

clone management; Code clones; developer behavior; empirical studies; software clones; software maintenance

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION;

CLONE MANAGEMENT; CODE CLONE; DEVELOPER BEHAVIOR; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; SOFTWARE CLONES;

CLONING;

EID: 84886672176     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IWSC.2013.6613036     Document Type: Conference Paper

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