Distilling useful clones by contextual differencing

Proceedings - Working Conference on Reverse Engineering, WCRE

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 102-111

  Xing, Zhenchang ^a   Xue, Yinxing ^a   Jarzabek, Stan ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Clone analysis; graph matching; program dependence graph

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATED APPROACH; CLONE ANALYSIS; CODE FRAGMENTS; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; GRAPH MATCHINGS; MAINTENANCE TASKS; MANUAL ANALYSIS; PROGRAM DEPENDENCE GRAPH;

COMPUTER AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; REVERSE ENGINEERING;

CLONING;

EID: 84893379503     PISSN: 10951350     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/WCRE.2013.6671285     Document Type: Conference Paper

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