—Planning a complex software modification task imposes a high cognitive burden on developers, who must juggle navigating the software, understanding what they see with respect t...
Reid Holmes, Tristan Ratchford, Martin P. Robillar...
When programmers develop or maintain software, they instinctively sense that there are fragments of code that other developers implemented somewhere, and these code fragments coul...
a Abstract— Source code copying for reuse (code cloning) is often observed in software implementations. Such code cloning causes difficulty when software functionalities are mod...
The process of understanding a source code in a high-level programming language involves complex computation. Given a piece of legacy code and a library of program plan templates, ...
It is generally said that code clone is one of the factors to make software maintenance difficult. A code clone is a code portion in source files that is identical or similar to...