An empirical study of the fault-proneness of clone mutation and clone migration

IEEE International Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 149-158

  Xie, Shuai ^a   Khomh, Foutse ^b   Zou, Ying ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b ÉCOLE POLYTECHNIQUE DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Clone genealogy; Clone migration; Fault proneness; Types of clones

Indexed keywords

CLONE DETECTION; CLONE MUTATION; CODE CLONE; CODE SEGMENTS; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; FAULT-PRONENESS; LINES OF CODE; SOFTWARE SYSTEMS;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; HISTORY;

CLONING;

EID: 84889077392     PISSN: 21601852     EISSN: 21601860     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/MSR.2013.6624022     Document Type: Conference Paper

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