… clone detection tools. We define 8 types of late propagation and compare them to other forms
of clone … Our results not only verify that late propagation is more harmful to software systems…

… ) clone detection tools. We define eight types of late propagation and compare them to other
forms of clone … Our results not only verify that late propagation is more harmful to software …

… the other two clone-types when making clone management … -proneness and late propagation
in code clones implies that … -proneness of all clone fragments in a software system. Also, …

… code-base of a software system are exactly or nearly … late propagation in Type 3 clones is
yet to investigate. In this research work we investigate late propagation in three types of clones (…

… in propagating a change is referred to as ‘late propagation,’ … of late propagation nor how
late propagation differs by clone … late propagation separately for each of the three clone types (…

… the the impact of the late propagation code clone evolution pattern. … RQ1 Is the late propagation
code clone evolution pattern … source software projects, we found that the late propagation …

… -proneness of clone pairs that undergo late propagation. The … presence of late propagated
clone pairs in software systems. … in studying the effects of late propagation on clone pairs. The …

… but, either because the maintainer is not aware of the presence of a clone, or s/he for
some reason cannot propagate the fix, a new bug appears later, raising the need for a new …

… via propagation of the change to the inconsistent clone(s)… late propagation detection (SLR
2), the results based on automatic late propagation detection indicate that clones undergo late …

… to late propagation clones only. We perform our study considering all clone fragments of
a software system. Barbour et al. did not investigate bug-propagation. We investigate bug-…