An empirical study of faults in late propagation clone genealogies

Journal of software: Evolution and Process

Volumn 25, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 1139-1165

  Barbour, Liliane ^a   Khomh, Foutse ^b   Zou, Ying ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b ÉCOLE POLYTECHNIQUE DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Clone genealogies; Fault proneness; Late propagation

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; CRACK PROPAGATION; HISTORY;

EMPIRICAL STUDIES; EVOLUTION HISTORY; EVOLUTION PATTERNS; FAULT PRONENESS; PROPAGATION OF CHANGES; SOFTWARE SYSTEMS; SOFTWARE TECHNOLOGY; VICTORIA , AUSTRALIA;

CLONING;

EID: 84898414979     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20477481     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/smr.1597     Document Type: Conference Paper

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