Title :
Finding file clones in FreeBSD Ports Collection
Author :
Sasaki, Yusuke ; Yamamoto, Tetsuo ; Hayase, Yasuhiro ; Inoue, Katsuro
Author_Institution :
Grad. Sch. of Inf. Sci. & Technol., Osaka Univ., Suita, Japan
Abstract :
In Open Source System (OSS) development, software components are often imported and reused; for this reason we might expect that files are copied in multiple projects (file clones). In this paper, we propose a file clone detection tool called FCFinder and show the analysis performed with it on the FreeBSD Ports Collection, a large OSS project collection. We found many file clones among similar or related projects, which are systematically introduced from base projects.
Keywords :
file organisation; public domain software; FCFinder; FreeBSD ports collection; OSS project collection; file clone detection tool; open source system; software component; Cloning; Educational institutions; Information science; Laboratories; Large-scale systems; Open source software; Performance analysis; Plagiarism; Software systems; Visualization; File clone; hashing; open source system; power law;
Conference_Titel :
Mining Software Repositories (MSR), 2010 7th IEEE Working Conference on
Conference_Location :
Cape Town
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-6802-7
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-6803-4
DOI :
10.1109/MSR.2010.5463293
