A clone management framework to improve code quality of FOSS projects

2017 International Conference on Communication, Computing and Digital Systems (C-CODE) Pub Date : 2017-03-01 DOI:10.1109/C-CODE.2017.7918938

Sara Shahzad, Ammara Hussain, S. Nazir

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Abstract

The emergence of Free/Open Source Software (FOSS) development model as a widely adopted paradigm in the software development industry in the recent few years has developed the interest of researchers towards the code quality of FOSS projects. Code clones are introduced in the software system by the adoption of common code reuse practices by FOSS developers. This has led the clone research community to observe the effects of code clones on the code quality of FOSS projects. Although code clones are not always harmful but they might become critical to large scale and evolving software systems such as FOSS projects. Research in this paper reveals the importance and need for improving code quality of FOSS projects by implementing an effective clone management system integrated in the FOSS development environment. This paper proposes a clone management framework that ensures effective clone evolution tracking and visualization in FOSS projects. This framework will appear as a baseline to initiate the efforts towards improving code quality by the implementation of a versatile clone management system for FOSS development.

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一个克隆管理框架，以提高自由/开源软件项目的代码质量

近年来，自由/开放源代码软件(FOSS)开发模型作为一种被软件开发行业广泛采用的范式的出现，引起了研究人员对自由/开放源代码软件项目代码质量的兴趣。自由/开源软件开发人员通过采用通用的代码重用实践在软件系统中引入了代码克隆。这使得克隆研究社区开始观察代码克隆对自由/开源软件项目代码质量的影响。虽然代码克隆并不总是有害的，但它们可能对大型和不断发展的软件系统(如自由/开源软件项目)至关重要。本文的研究揭示了通过在自由/开源软件开发环境中集成一个有效的克隆管理系统来提高自由/开源软件项目代码质量的重要性和必要性。本文提出了一个克隆管理框架，保证了自由/开源软件项目中有效的克隆演化跟踪和可视化。这个框架将作为一个基线，通过为自由/开源软件开发实现一个通用的克隆管理系统，开始努力提高代码质量。

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