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Implementation of discoverable digital clone library for knowledge transfer and improved productivity.

M. Tech. Information Networks / Code clone is a code portion in one source code fragment that is similar or identical to a code portion in another source code fragment. Clones in applications are inevitable within an organization's intranet. There are a great number of clone detection tools to help maintenance programmers to locate and refactor code clones where they exist. Currently clone detection process has not been explored fully to construct digital libraries to store clones for reuse and shareability. This is because most of clone detection techniques produce Indexed Statistical Reports as textual file showing related group of code fragments. Other techniques visualize clones to depict clones versions history as genealogies. Furthermore current techniques do not indicate the reusability and shareability worthiness of the detected clones in taxonomy. In this mini-dissertation a Clone Wrapper Detection Technique prototype is developed to detect and store commonly used structural clones into a Discoverable Digital Clone Library hosted in Fedora Repository. Stored clones metadata are then extracted to induce a Clone Family Tree Ontology of related class clones in a taxonomy based on Abstraction (inheritance and composition hierarchy) process.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:netd.ac.za/oai:union.ndltd.org:tut/oai:encore.tut.ac.za:d1001108
Date January 2013
CreatorsGadebe, Moses Lesiba.
Source SetsSouth African National ETD Portal
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeText
FormatPDF

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