Understanding the evolution of type-3 clones: An exploratory study

IEEE International Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 139-148

  Saha, Ripon K ^a   Roy, Chanchal K ^b   Schneider, Kevin A ^b   Perry, Dewayne E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

Author keywords

Clone evolution; Clone genealogy; Type 3 clones

Indexed keywords

ABSOLUTE NUMBER; CLONE MANAGEMENT; EXPLORATORY STUDIES; LIFE SPAN; OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE SYSTEMS; SOFTWARE SYSTEMS;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

CLONING;

EID: 84889033372     PISSN: 21601852     EISSN: 21601860     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/MSR.2013.6624021     Document Type: Conference Paper

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