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Clone Detector Use Questions: A List of Desirable Empirical Studies
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- Publication Date: 2007-04-19
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Thomas R. Dean, Massamiliano Di Penta, Kostas Kontogiannis, and Andrew Walenstein. Clone Detector Use Questions: A List of Desirable Empirical Studies. In Duplication, Redundancy, and Similarity in Software. Dagstuhl Seminar Proceedings, Volume 6301, pp. 1-5, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2007)
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Abstract
Code "clones" are similar segments of code that are frequently introduced
by "scavenging" existing code, that is, reusing code by copying it and
adapting it for a new use. In order to scavenge the code, the developer
must be aware of it already, or must find it. Little is known about how
tools - particularly search tools - impact the clone construction process,
nor how developers use them for this purpose. This paper lists five
outstanding research questions in this area and proposes sketches of
designs for five empirical studies that might be conducted to help shed
light on those questions.
Keywords
- Code clone
- clone detector
- code search
- reuse
- code scavenging
- empirical study
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