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Articles Supporting Tools Purchases

Butler Group. Application Modernization Technology Audit of Semantic Designs June 2003. Web Report.
The Butler Group's review of DMS's capabilities.

Good, Declan - Technology Research Club Legacy Transformation Aug. 2002 PDF format
Makes the point that automated tools and techniques no make legacy transformations technically and economically feasible. Mentions Semantic Designs.

Krueger, Charles W., Churchet, Dale. Eliciting Abstrations from a Software Product Line PDF format
Presents benefits of managing abstractions in code- identifies SD's CloneDoctor as a tool that helps identify abstractions.

Spinellis, Diomidis. The Tools At Hand Jan-Feb 2005. Online column.
Compares how various industries invest in tools- makes the point that computing is under financed.

Burd, Elizabeth, Bailey, John. Evaluating Clone Detection Tools For User During Maintenance
This paper was presented at the Second IEEE International Workshop on Source Code Analysis and Manipulation (SCAM'02) and can be purchased from IEEE
Compares results of four tools: CCFinder, CloneDr, Covet, JPlag, Moss. Quote: "CloneDr was the only tool who provided perfect precision, thereby identifying no false positive matches, and therefore not resulting in the incurring of wasted maintenance effort."





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