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Hot clones, maintaining a link between software clones across repositories

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Nikolaus E. Schwarz,

Erwann Wernli,

Adrian KuhnAuthors Info & Claims

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

Pages 81 - 82

https://doi.org/10.1145/1808901.1808915

Published: 08 May 2010 Publication History

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Code duplication is common in current programming-practice: programmers search for snippets of code, incorporate them into their projects and then modify them to their needs. In today's practice, no automated scheme is in place to inform both parties of any distant changes of the code. As code snippets continues to evolve both on the side of the user and on the side of the author, both may wish to benefit from remote bug fixes or refinements---authors may be interested in the actual usage of their code snippets, and researchers could gather information on clone usage. We propose maintaining a link between software clones across repositories and outline how the links can be created and maintained.

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Inoue KSasaki YXia PManabe YGlinz MMurphy GPezzè M(2012)Where does this code come from and where does it go? - integrated code history tracker for open source systems -Proceedings of the 34th International Conference on Software Engineering10.5555/2337223.2337263(331-341)Online publication date: 2-Jun-2012
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/2337223.2337263
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https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSE.2012.6227181
Schwarz N(2012)Hot ClonesProceedings of the 2012 16th European Conference on Software Maintenance and Reengineering10.1109/CSMR.2012.67(513-515)Online publication date: 27-Mar-2012
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1109/CSMR.2012.67

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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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Inoue KSasaki YXia PManabe YGlinz MMurphy GPezzè M(2012)Where does this code come from and where does it go? - integrated code history tracker for open source systems -Proceedings of the 34th International Conference on Software Engineering10.5555/2337223.2337263(331-341)Online publication date: 2-Jun-2012
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/2337223.2337263
Inoue KSasaki YXia PManabe Y(2012)Where does this code come from and where does it go? — Integrated code history tracker for open source systems2012 34th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE)10.1109/ICSE.2012.6227181(331-341)Online publication date: Jun-2012
https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSE.2012.6227181
Schwarz N(2012)Hot ClonesProceedings of the 2012 16th European Conference on Software Maintenance and Reengineering10.1109/CSMR.2012.67(513-515)Online publication date: 27-Mar-2012
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1109/CSMR.2012.67

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