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- Title
Tracking Your Changes: A Language-Independent Approach.
- Authors
Canfora, Gerardo; Cerulo, Luigi; Di Penta, Massimiliano
- Abstract
The article discusses a language-independent tool for tracking changes in software code. Employing the "ldiff" differencing algorithm, the authors' approach enables developers to track source code and bugs across different code versions while overcoming limitations encountered when using the Unix "diff" algorithm for those tasks. After describing how their algorithm works the authors present two illustrative examples, one for tracking source code clones, and another for tracking vulnerable instructions.
- Subjects
SOURCE code; COMPUTER software; UNIX operating systems; SOFTWARE engineering; COMPUTER software development; COMPUTER programming
- Publication
IEEE Software, 2009, Vol 26, Issue 1, p50
- ISSN
0740-7459
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1109/MS.2009.26