Evolving Code Clones

The goal of this project plan is to give an short overview of the topic that lies beneath the diploma thesis. It describes the main tasks and outcomes that should be achieved during this thesis. Since time management is an essential part of writing a diploma thesis, this plan also serves a guideline helping not to loose control over the allocated time. The thesis consists of 5 tasks (See [1] for more detailed information). Tasks 1 and 2 form that part of the thesis which focuses on programming by modifiying and extending a framework realizied as a plug-in for the open-source IDE Eclipse1. Tasks 3 5 focus on developping an approach based on the mentioned framework. It also includes evaluating the approach by applying it on case studies.