Year: 2012
Type: dissertation
Abstract: The practice of code cloning is something every software developer has to deal with at some point. The evolution of code clones is of particular interest, because the effects of cloning code show up later in the lifetime of a project. We research the effects a clone's properties have on its evolutionary behavior. For this purpose an approach to extract the clone size information from mined software repositories is shown. Using this approach an insight can be gained into how clone sizes evolve over time, as well as whether the size has an influence on other evolutionary patterns of a clone. We present our findings and conclude that clone size influences a clone's evolution in several ways.
Author: G. Bouma
Institution: Delft University of Technology
Language: English
Subfield: Information Systems
Field: Computer Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W585112601