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+# Code of FixMiner
+
+## Build
+
+Clone and install `edu.lu.uni:simple-utils`.
+
+```
+git clone https://github.com/SerVal-DTF/simple-utils
+mvn install
+```
+
+Clone and install the modified version of Gumtree.
+
+```
+git clone https://github.com/SerVal-DTF/gumtree
+mvn install
+```
+
+Clone and install fixminer.
+
+```
+git clone https://github.com/SerVal-DTF/fixminer_source
+mvn install
+```
+
+## Main classes
+
+* `src/main/java/edu/lu/uni/serval/fixminer/Launcher.java` computes the edit scripts from local file pairs and pushes them to a Redis database
+* `src/main/java/edu/lu/uni/serval/utils/ClusterToPattern.java` extracts the Rich Edit Script from the Gumtree output from the database
+* `src/main/java/edu/lu/uni/serval/utils/CallShell.java`
+* `src/main/java/edu/lu/uni/serval/fixminer/TestTreeLoader.java`
+* `src/main/java/edu/lu/uni/serval/fixminer/jobs/PatternExtractor.java`
+* `src/main/java/edu/lu/uni/serval/fixminer/akka/compare/CompareTrees.java`
+