An empirical study of clone removals

IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance, ICSM

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 50-59

  Bazrafshan, Saman ^a   Koschke, Rainer ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Clone evolution; Clone removal; Software maintenance

Indexed keywords

CLONE REMOVALS; CODE CLONE; CODE DUPLICATION; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; SOFTWARE SYSTEMS; SOURCE CODES;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE;

CLONING;

EID: 84891701161     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICSM.2013.16     Document Type: Conference Paper

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