Title :
What clone coverage can tell
Author :
Göde, Nils ; Hummel, Benjamin ; Juergens, Elmar
Author_Institution :
CQSE GmbH, Germany
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;
Conference_Titel :
Software Clones (IWSC), 2012 6th International Workshop on
Conference_Location :
Zurich
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-1794-8
DOI :
10.1109/IWSC.2012.6227880
