Long-running applications such as network services require continuous uptime but also frequent changes to the software. To avoid downtime for software maintenance, applications mu...
This paper describes how a program called dup can be used to locate instances of duplication or nearduplication in a software system. D u p reports both textually identical sectio...
Requirements engineering (RE) is concerned with the identification of the goals to be achieved by the envisioned system, the operationalization of such goals into services and con...
Code duplication, plausibly caused by copying source code and slightly modifying it, is often observed in large systems. Clone detection and documentation have been investigated b...
Magdalena Balazinska, Ettore Merlo, Michel Dagenai...
Software repositories provide abundance of valuable information about open source projects. With the increase in the size of the data maintained by the repositories, automated ext...