Morgan Ericsson
Linnaeus University, Sweden
Anna Wingkvist
Linnaeus University, Sweden
Welf Löwe
Linnaeus University, Sweden
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Published in: Proceedings of SIGRAD 2012; Interactive Visual Analysis of Data; November 29-30; 2012; Växjö; Sweden
Linköping Electronic Conference Proceedings 81:10, p. 79-82
Published: 2012-11-20
ISBN: 978-91-7519-723-4
ISSN: 1650-3686 (print), 1650-3740 (online)
An initial study of how text clones can be detected and visualized in technical documentation; i.e.; semi-structured text that describe a product; software; or service. The goal of the visualizations is to support human experts to assess and prioritize the clones; since certain clones can be either intentional or harmless. We study some existing visualizations designed for source code; and provide initial and limited adaption of these. A major difficulty in this adaptation is to manage the semi-structured technical documentation compared to structured source code.
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