• DocumentCode
    2346132
  • Title

    Finding file clones in FreeBSD Ports Collection

  • Author

    Sasaki, Yusuke ; Yamamoto, Tetsuo ; Hayase, Yasuhiro ; Inoue, Katsuro

  • Author_Institution
    Grad. Sch. of Inf. Sci. & Technol., Osaka Univ., Suita, Japan
  • fYear
    2010
  • fDate
    2-3 May 2010
  • Firstpage
    102
  • Lastpage
    105
  • Abstract
    In Open Source System (OSS) development, software components are often imported and reused; for this reason we might expect that files are copied in multiple projects (file clones). In this paper, we propose a file clone detection tool called FCFinder and show the analysis performed with it on the FreeBSD Ports Collection, a large OSS project collection. We found many file clones among similar or related projects, which are systematically introduced from base projects.
  • Keywords
    file organisation; public domain software; FCFinder; FreeBSD ports collection; OSS project collection; file clone detection tool; open source system; software component; Cloning; Educational institutions; Information science; Laboratories; Large-scale systems; Open source software; Performance analysis; Plagiarism; Software systems; Visualization; File clone; hashing; open source system; power law;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Mining Software Repositories (MSR), 2010 7th IEEE Working Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Cape Town
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-6802-7
  • Electronic_ISBN
    978-1-4244-6803-4
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/MSR.2010.5463293
  • Filename
    5463293