GCad: A near-miss clone genealogy extractor to support clone evolution analysis

IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance, ICSM

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 488-491

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

Author keywords

Clone evolution; Clone genealogy; Type 3 clones

Indexed keywords

CHANGE PATTERNS; CLONE DETECTION; CLONE MANAGEMENT; DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATIONS; DIFFERENT GRANULARITIES; EVOLUTION ANALYSIS; POST PROCESSING; TOOL DEMONSTRATION;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE; HISTORY;

CLONING;

EID: 84891704605     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICSM.2013.79     Document Type: Conference Paper

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