Automatic ranking of clones for refactoring through mining association rules

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

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 114-123

  Mandal, Manishankar ^a   Roy, Chanchal K ^a   Schneider, Kevin A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

Author keywords

Association Rule; Clone Change Pattern; Clone Class; Clone Refactoring

Indexed keywords

ASSOCIATION RULES; COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE; REENGINEERING; REVERSE ENGINEERING;

AUTOMATIC RANKING; CHANGE PATTERNS; MAINTENANCE EFFORTS; MINE ASSOCIATION RULES; MINING ASSOCIATIONS; REFACTORINGS; SIMILARITY PRESERVING; SOFTWARE EVOLUTION;

CLONING;

EID: 84898404595     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CSMR-WCRE.2014.6747161     Document Type: Conference Paper

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