Several research tools and projects require groups of similar code changes as input.
Examples are recommendation and bug finding tools that can provide valuable information …

Developers expend significant effort on reviewing source code changes. Hence, the
comprehensibility of code changes directly affects development productivity. Our prior study …

Code review is a common practice in software development and often conducted before
code changes are merged into the code repository. A number of approaches for …

Similarity analysis of source code is helpful during development to provide, for instance,
better support for code reuse. Consider a development environment that analyzes code …

Software developers are often faced with modification tasks that involve source which is
spread across a code base. Some dependencies between source code, such as those …

Source code similarity measurement is a fundamental technique in software engineering
research. Techniques to measure code similarity have been invented and applied to various …

The life cycle of a large‐scale software system can undergo many releases. Each release
often involves hundreds or thousands of revisions committed by many developers over time …

In this paper, we propose a method to reason about the nature of software changes by
mining and correlating discussion archives. We employ an information retrieval approach to …

Cloning in software systems is known to create problems during software maintenance.
Several techniques have been proposed to detect the same or similar code fragments in …

Many active research studies in software engineering, such as detection of recurring bug
fixes, detection of copy-and-paste bugs, and automated program transformation tools, are …