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ICSM
2009
IEEE
14 years 4 days ago
2009
IEEE
Software clones are considered harmful in software maintenance and evolution. However, despite a decade of active research, there is a marked lack of work in the detection and ana...
ICSM
2007
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
2007
IEEE
We examine eleven large open source software systems and present empirical evidence for the existence of fractal structures in software evolution. In our study, fractal structures...
ASWEC
2008
IEEE
13 years 12 months ago
2008
IEEE
Previous studies of Object-Oriented (OO) software have reported avoidance of the inheritance mechanism and cast doubt on the wisdom of ‘deep’ inheritance levels. From an evolu...
SIGSOFT
2007
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
2007
ACM
Studies show that programs contain much similar code, commonly known as clones. One of the main reasons for introducing clones is programmers' tendency to copy and paste code...
ICSM
2006
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
2006
IEEE
Although the world-wide-web (WWW) has significantly enhanced open-source software (OSS) development, it has also created new challenges for quality assurance (QA), especially for...