Late propagation in software clones

L Barbour, F Khomh, Y Zou - 2011 27th IEEE International …, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
… a better understanding of clone genealogies to better support code clones. Our work strives
for a deeper understanding of one specific type of clone genealogy, late propagation, to help …

Bug-proneness and late propagation tendency of code clones: A comparative study on different clone types

M Mondal, CK Roy, KA Schneider - Journal of Systems and Software, 2018 - Elsevier
… However, in this extended work we automatically detect late propagation in code clones,
and then analyze the relatedness of late propagation with clone bug-proneness. From this …

A comparative study on the intensity and harmfulness of late propagation in near-miss code clones

M Mondal, CK Roy, KA Schneider - Software Quality Journal, 2016 - Springer
… in propagating a change is referred to as ‘late propagation,’ … of late propagation nor how
late propagation differs by clonelate propagation separately for each of the three clone types (…

An empirical study of faults in late propagation clone genealogies

L Barbour, F Khomh, Y Zou - Journal of Software: Evolution …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
… of late propagation and compare them to other forms of clone evolution. Our results not only
verify that late propagation is … if for late propagation types, the size of cloned code (in lines of …

Late propagation in near-miss clones: An empirical study

M Mondal, CK Roy, KA Schneider - Electronic Communications of the …, 2014 - eceasst.org
… to one another, we call them code clones. It is often … , late propagation in Type 3 clones is
yet to investigate. In this research work we investigate late propagation in three types of clones (…

Studying late propagations in code clone evolution using software repository mining

HH Mui, A Zaidman, M Pinzger - Electronic Communications of the …, 2014 - eceasst.org
… of code clone relations. In this paper, our main research question is: What is the impact of the
late propagation code clone … as to the usefulness of code clone management tools [10]. In …

Is Late Propagation a Harmful Code Clone Evolutionary Pattern? An Empirical Study

O Ehsan, L Barbour, F Khomh, Y Zou - Code Clone Analysis: Research …, 2021 - Springer
… types of late propagation and investigate their fault-proneness. Our results confirm that late
propagation is the more harmful clone evolution pattern and that some specific cases of late

An empirical study on bug propagation through code cloning

M Mondal, B Roy, CK Roy, KA Schneider - Journal of Systems and …, 2019 - Elsevier
… of late propagations and then analyzed whether the clone fragments that experienced late
… our study is not limited to late propagation clones only. We perform our study considering all …

An empirical study on the maintenance of source code clones

S Thummalapenta, L Cerulo, L Aversano… - Empirical Software …, 2010 - Springer
Code cloning has been very often indicated as a bad software … in cloned code are consistently
propagated, or cloning is … Finally, clone classes in which a late clone propagation was …

Bug propagation through code cloning: An empirical study

M Mondal, CK Roy… - 2017 IEEE International …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
… of late propagations and then analyzed whether the clone fragments that experienced late
… our study is not limited to late propagation clones only. We perform our study considering all …