17. Applications

There are many potential applications for source code correlation. In this chapter I discuss some of the ones that I have identified, though there are likely many more than these. Table 17.1 shows the applications that I discuss in this chapter and the most useful element correlations to emphasize in each case; each application is likely to emphasize certain element correlations over others, though these are not hard-and-fast rules.

Table 17.1. Applications of Source Code Correlation

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17.1 Functional Correlation

Note that Table ...

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