Title :
Evaluating the Harmfulness of Cloning: A Change Based Experiment
Author :
Lozano, Angela ; Wermelinger, Michel ; Nuseibeh, Bashar
Author_Institution :
Open Univ., Milton Keynes
Abstract :
Cloning is considered a harmful practice for software maintenance because it requires consistent changes of the entities that share a cloned fragment. However this claim has not been refuted or confirmed empirically. Therefore, we have developed a prototype tool, CloneTracker, in order to study the rate of change of applications containing clones. This paper describes CloneTracker and illustrates its preliminary application on a case study.
Keywords :
configuration management; program diagnostics; software maintenance; software prototyping; CloneTracker; prototype tool; software maintenance; Application software; Cloning; Degradation; Java; Kernel; Linux; Prototypes; Software maintenance; Software prototyping; Telecommunications;
Conference_Titel :
Mining Software Repositories, 2007. ICSE Workshops MSR '07. Fourth International Workshop on
Conference_Location :
Minneapolis, MN
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-2950-X
