Paper Info
Title
Reconstruction of Successful Software Evolution Using Clone Detection
Abstract
In modern software engineering, researchers regard a software system as an organic life form that must continue to evolve to remain successful. Unfortunately, little is known about how successful software systems have evolved, and consequently little has been learned from previous experience. In this paper, we demonstrate a heuristic to reconstruct evolution processes of existing software systems by exploiting techniques to detect duplication in large amounts of data. A case study, evaluating various versions of Tomcat using this heuristic, revealed that the removal of duplicated code is a much smaller concern than grouping functionality in classes with one clear responsibility.
Year
DOI
Venue
2003
10.1109/IWPSE.2003.1231219
IWPSE
Keywords
Field
DocType
software system,previous experience,modern software engineering,evolution process,clear responsibility,large amount,successful software system,successful software evolution,organic life form,grouping functionality,case study,clone detection,software metrics,software engineering,software evolution,pattern recognition,software maintenance,software systems
Software analytics,Systems engineering,Software engineering,Computer science,Software system,Software evolution,Software construction,Software framework,Software development,Software sizing,Social software engineering
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
0-7695-1903-2
39
3.63
References 
Authors
8
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Filip Van Rysselberghe118313.97
Serge Demeyer22250291.74