Ldiff: An enhanced line differencing tool Export

@article{citeulike:6032509, abstract = {Differencing tools are highly relevant for a series of software engineering tasks, including analyzing developers' activities, assessing the changeability of software artifacts, and monitoring the maintenance of critical assets such as source clones and vulnerable instructions. This tool demonstration shows the features of ldiff, an enhanced, language-independent line differencing tool. L-diff builds upon the Unix diff and overcomes its limitations in determining whether an artifact line has been changed or is the result of additions and removals, and in tracking artifact fragments that have been moved upward or downward within the file. The paper describes the tool and shows its capability of analyzing changes on different kinds of software artifacts, including use cases, code developed with different programming languages, and test cases.}, address = {Los Alamitos, CA, USA}, author = {Canfora, Gerardo and Cerulo, Luigi and Di Penta, Massimiliano}, citeulike-article-id = {6032509}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/ICSE.2009.5070564}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICSE.2009.5070564}, doi = {10.1109/ICSE.2009.5070564}, isbn = {978-1-4244-3453-4}, journal = {Software Engineering, International Conference on}, keywords = {diff}, pages = {595--598}, posted-at = {2009-10-29 15:57:29}, priority = {2}, publisher = {IEEE Computer Society}, title = {Ldiff: An enhanced line differencing tool}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICSE.2009.5070564}, volume = {0}, year = {2009} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:6032509 L3 - citeulike-article-id:6032509 N2 - Differencing tools are highly relevant for a series of software engineering tasks, including analyzing developers' activities, assessing the changeability of software artifacts, and monitoring the maintenance of critical assets such as source clones and vulnerable instructions. This tool demonstration shows the features of ldiff, an enhanced, language-independent line differencing tool. L-diff builds upon the Unix diff and overcomes its limitations in determining whether an artifact line has been changed or is the result of additions and removals, and in tracking artifact fragments that have been moved upward or downward within the file. The paper describes the tool and shows its capability of analyzing changes on different kinds of software artifacts, including use cases, code developed with different programming languages, and test cases. JF - Software Engineering, International Conference on SN - 978-1-4244-3453-4 AD - Los Alamitos, CA, USA EP - 598 TI - Ldiff: An enhanced line differencing tool PB - IEEE Computer Society VL - 0 SP - 595 KW - diff AU - Canfora, Gerardo AU - Cerulo, Luigi AU - Di Penta, Massimiliano PY - 2009/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICSE.2009.5070564 ER -