The vision of software clone management: Past, present, and future (Keynote paper)

2014 Software Evolution Week - IEEE Conference on Software Maintenance, Reengineering, and Reverse Engineering, CSMR-WCRE 2014 - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 18-33

  Roy, Chanchal K ^a   Zibran, Minhaz F ^a   Koschke, Rainer ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Clone Analysis; Clone Management; Code Clones; Future Research Directions

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; REENGINEERING; RESEARCH; REVERSE ENGINEERING; SURVEYS;

CLONE ANALYSIS; CLONE MANAGEMENT; CODE CLONE; FUTURE RESEARCH DIRECTIONS; REFACTORINGS; SOFTWARE CLONES; SOFTWARE SYSTEMS; STATE OF THE ART;

CLONING;

EID: 84898402943     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CSMR-WCRE.2014.6747168     Document Type: Conference Paper

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