MacDonell, SGAakjaer, ASallis, PJ2012-04-302012-04-3019961996Proceedings of Software Engineering: Education & Practice (SE:E&P'96), Dunedin, New Zealand, pp.481 - 485.https://hdl.handle.net/10292/4083Over the past few years there has been a renewed interest in the science of software authorship identification; this area of research has been termed `software forensics'. This paper examines the range of possible measures that can be used to establish commonality and variance in programmer style, with a view to determining program authorship. It also describes some applications of these techniques, particularly for establishing the originator of programs in cases of security breach, plagiarism and computer fraud.Copyright © 1996 IEEE. Personal use of this material is permitted. Permission from IEEE must be obtained for all other uses, in any current or future media, including reprinting/republishing this material for advertising or promotional purposes, creating new collective works, for resale or redistribution to servers or lists, or reuse of any copyrighted component of this work in other works.Conference ContributionOpenAccess10.1109/SEEP.1996.534037