—Changing source code in large software systems is complex and requires a good understanding of dependencies between software components. Modification to components with little ...
Thomas Zimmermann, Nachiappan Nagappan, Kim Herzig...
In an empirical study of fourteen widely used open source PHP web applications, we found that the vulnerability density of the aggregate code base decreased from 8.88 vulnerabilit...
James Walden, Maureen Doyle, Grant A. Welch, Micha...
—Current research on code clones tries to address the question whether or not code clones are harmful for the quality of software. As most of these studies are based on the fine...
Nicolas Bettenburg, Weiyi Shang, Walid Ibrahim, Br...
Empirical studies that use software repository artifacts have become popular in the last decade due to the ready availability of open source project archives. In this paper, we su...
Code Cloning is regarded as a threat to software maintenance, because it is generally assumed that a change to a code clone usually has to be applied to the other clones of the cl...