An empirical study on the fault-proneness of clone migration in clone genealogies

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

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 94-103

  Xie, Shuai ^a   Khomh, Foutse ^b   Zou, Ying ^a   Keivanloo, Iman ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b ÉCOLE POLYTECHNIQUE DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

clone genealogy; clone migration; clone mutation; fault proneness; Type of clones

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE; HISTORY; REENGINEERING; REVERSE ENGINEERING;

CLONE MUTATION; CODE FRAGMENTS; COPY-AND-PASTE; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; FAULT-PRONE; FAULT-PRONENESS; MIGRATION PHENOMENA; SOFTWARE SYSTEMS;

CLONING;

EID: 84898406717     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CSMR-WCRE.2014.6747229     Document Type: Conference Paper

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