Evaluating the Harmfulness of Cloning: A Change Based Experiment

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Title	Evaluating the Harmfulness of Cloning: A Change Based Experiment
Publication Type	Conference Paper
Year of Publication	2007
Authors	Lozano, A, Wermelinger, M, Nuseibeh, B
Secondary Title	Fourth International Workshop on Mining Software Repositories (MSR'07:ICSE Workshops 2007)
Pagination	18 - 18
Publisher	IEEE
Place Published	Minneapolis, MN, USA
ISBN Number	0-7695-2950-X
Keywords	ccfinder, clone, clones, clonetracker, cloning, ctags, cvs, dnsjava, maintenance, scm, source code
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.
DOI	10.1109/MSR.2007.8
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