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Tracking clones' imprint

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IWSC '10: Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Software Clones

Pages 65 - 72

https://doi.org/10.1145/1808901.1808910

Published: 08 May 2010 Publication History

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Cloning imprint is the lasting effect of cloning on applications. This paper aims to analyze the clone imprint over time, in terms of the extension of cloning, the persistence of clones in methods, and the stability of cloned methods. Such level of detail requires an improvement in the clone tracking algorithms previously proposed, which is also presented.

We found that cloned methods are cloned most of their lifetime, cloned methods have a higher density of changes, and that changes in cloned methods tend to be customizations to the clone environment.

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Tracking clones' imprint
1. Software and its engineering
  1. Software creation and management
    1. Software post-development issues
      1. Software reverse engineering

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IWSC '10: Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Software Clones

May 2010

105 pages

ISBN:9781605589800

DOI:10.1145/1808901

Conference Chairs:
Katsuro Inoue
Osaka University, Japan
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Stanislaw Jarzabek
National University of Singapore, Singapore
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Rainer Koschke
University of Bremen, Germany
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James R. Cordy
Queen's University, Canada

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