Clone Detector Use Questions:  A List of Desirable Empirical Studies

Dean, Thomas R.; Di Penta, Massamiliano; Kontogiannis, Kostas; Walenstein, Andrew

doi:10.4230/DagSemProc.06301.5

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Clone Detector Use Questions: A List of Desirable Empirical Studies

Authors Thomas R. Dean, Massamiliano Di Penta, Kostas Kontogiannis, Andrew Walenstein

Part of: Volume: Dagstuhl Seminar Proceedings, Volume 6301
Part of: Series: Dagstuhl Seminar Proceedings (DagSemProc)
License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license
Publication Date: 2007-04-19

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DOI: 10.4230/DagSemProc.06301.5
URN: urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-9695

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Code clone
clone detector
code search
reuse
code scavenging
empirical study

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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.

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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) https://doi.org/10.4230/DagSemProc.06301.5

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Thomas R. Dean

Massamiliano Di Penta

Kostas Kontogiannis

Andrew Walenstein

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