Applying bioinformatics in the analysis of software variants
Applying bioinformatics in the analysis of software variants
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应用生物信息学分析软件变体
DOI：
10.1109/icpc.2012.6240499
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发表时间：
2012
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通讯作者：
Slawomir Duszynski
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作者：
Vasil L. Tenev;Slawomir Duszynski
软件相似性分析是一个活跃的研究课题，特别是在软件维护和软件重用的背景下。存在几种方法来检测一个软件系统内和跨多个系统的类似代码。在进行软件变体的相似性分析时，我们观察到用于分析软件和生物有机体的进化的方法之间的许多相似性。因此，我们将基因组相似性分析中使用的生物信息学概念（如比对和系统发育树）应用于软件变体。我们提出了这些概念的有用性，将它们应用到一组相关的系统从BSD Unix家族。
Analysis of software similarity is a lively research topic, particularly in the context of software maintenance and software reuse. There exist several approaches to detecting similar code inside one software system and across many systems. While working on similarity analysis of software variants, we observed many analogies between the approaches for analyzing evolution of software and of biological organisms. Hence, we applied bioinformatics concepts used in genome similarity analysis, such as alignments and phylogenetic trees, to software variants. We present the usefulness of these concepts by applying them to a group of related systems from the BSD Unix family.