Effects of cloned code on software maintainability: A replicated developer study

Proceedings - Working Conference on Reverse Engineering, WCRE

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 112-121

  Chatterji, Debarshi ^a   Carver, Jeffrey C ^a   Kraft, Nicholas A ^a   Harder, Jan ^b  

^a Department of Computer Science   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

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

Indexed keywords

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

COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE; MAINTENANCE; PROGRAM DEBUGGING; REVERSE ENGINEERING;

CLONING;

EID: 84893357565     PISSN: 10951350     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/WCRE.2013.6671286     Document Type: Conference Paper

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