Automatic mining of functionally equivalent code fragments via random testing

• Main Authors: JIANG, Lingxiao, SU, Zhendong
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2009
• Subjects: code clones; random testing; functional equivalence; Software Engineering
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/954; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/1953/viewcontent/AutomaticMiningFuncEquivCode_ISSTA2009.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Similar code may exist in large software projects due to some common software engineering practices, such as copying and pasting code and n-version programming. Although previous work has studied syntactic equivalence and small-scale, coarse-grained program-level and function-level semantic equivale...