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A criterion for filtering code clone related bugs

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Yasuhiro Hayase,

Yii Yong Lee,

Katsuro InoueAuthors Info & Claims

DEFECTS '08: Proceedings of the 2008 workshop on Defects in large software systems

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https://doi.org/10.1145/1390817.1390828

Published: 20 July 2008 Publication History

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Software reviews are time-consuming task especially for large software systems. To reduce the efforts required, Li et al. developed CP-Miner, a code clone detection tool that detects identifier naming inconsistencies between code clones as bug candidates. However, reviewers using CP-Miner still have to assess many inconsistencies, since the tool also reports many false-positive candidates. To reduce the false-positive candidates, we propose a criterion for filtering the candidates. In our experiments, filtering with the proposed criterion removed 30% of the false-positive candidates and no true-positive candidates. This result shows that the proposed criterion helps the review task by effectively reducing the number of bug candidates.

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Rattan DBhatia RSingh M(2013)Software clone detection: A systematic reviewInformation and Software Technology10.1016/j.infsof.2013.01.00855:7(1165-1199)Online publication date: Jul-2013
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.infsof.2013.01.008
Inoue KHigo YYoshida NChoi EKusumoto SKim KPark WLee ECordy JInoue KKoschke RKrinke JRoy C(2012)Experience of finding inconsistently-changed bugs in code clones of mobile softwareProceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Software Clones10.5555/2664398.2664421(94-95)Online publication date: 4-Jun-2012
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/2664398.2664421
Lucia Lo DJiang LBudi AGlinz MMurphy GPezzè M(2012)Active refinement of clone anomaly reportsProceedings of the 34th International Conference on Software Engineering10.5555/2337223.2337270(397-407)Online publication date: 2-Jun-2012
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/2337223.2337270
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DEFECTS '08: Proceedings of the 2008 workshop on Defects in large software systems

July 2008

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ISBN:9781605580517

DOI:10.1145/1390817

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Rattan DBhatia RSingh M(2013)Software clone detection: A systematic reviewInformation and Software Technology10.1016/j.infsof.2013.01.00855:7(1165-1199)Online publication date: Jul-2013
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.infsof.2013.01.008
Inoue KHigo YYoshida NChoi EKusumoto SKim KPark WLee ECordy JInoue KKoschke RKrinke JRoy C(2012)Experience of finding inconsistently-changed bugs in code clones of mobile softwareProceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Software Clones10.5555/2664398.2664421(94-95)Online publication date: 4-Jun-2012
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/2664398.2664421
Lucia Lo DJiang LBudi AGlinz MMurphy GPezzè M(2012)Active refinement of clone anomaly reportsProceedings of the 34th International Conference on Software Engineering10.5555/2337223.2337270(397-407)Online publication date: 2-Jun-2012
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/2337223.2337270
Inoue KHigo YYoshida NChoi EKusumoto SKim KPark WLee E(2012)Experience of finding inconsistently-changed bugs in code clones of mobile software2012 6th International Workshop on Software Clones (IWSC)10.1109/IWSC.2012.6227882(94-95)Online publication date: Jun-2012
https://doi.org/10.1109/IWSC.2012.6227882
Lucia Lo DJiang LBudi A(2012)Active refinement of clone anomaly reports2012 34th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE)10.1109/ICSE.2012.6227175(397-407)Online publication date: Jun-2012
https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSE.2012.6227175

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