Finding file clones in FreeBSD Ports Collection

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Title	Finding file clones in FreeBSD Ports Collection
Publication Type	Conference Paper
Year of Publication	2010
Authors	Sasaki, Y, Yamamoto, T, Hayase, Y, Inoue, K
Secondary Title	2010 7th IEEE Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR 2010)2010 7th IEEE Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR 2010)
Pagination	102 - 105
Publisher	IEEE
Place Published	Cape Town, South Africa
ISBN Number	978-1-4244-6802-7
Keywords	clone, freebsd, msr challenge, source code
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.
DOI	10.1109/MSR.2010.5463293
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