DocumentCode
2453204
Title
What clone coverage can tell
Author
Göde, Nils ; Hummel, Benjamin ; Juergens, Elmar
Author_Institution
CQSE GmbH, Germany
fYear
2012
fDate
4-4 June 2012
Firstpage
90
Lastpage
91
Abstract
In research and practice there is a desire to express the amount of cloning in a system in a compact form and compare different systems with each other. A popular choice for doing so is to use the clone coverage - the percentage of source code being part of at least one clone. However, the clone coverage is strongly influenced by the parameters used for clone detection and the peculiarities of each system. In this paper, we summarize certain pitfalls and argue that clone coverage values should be interpreted with care.
Keywords
software quality; source coding; clone coverage values; clone detection; source code; Cloning; History; Java; Redundancy; Size measurement; Standards; Software quality; clone detection; code clones;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Software Clones (IWSC), 2012 6th International Workshop on
Conference_Location
Zurich
Print_ISBN
978-1-4673-1794-8
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/IWSC.2012.6227880
Filename
6227880
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