Cloning (ad hoc reuse by duplication of design or code) speeds up development, but also hinders future maintenance. Cloning also hints at reuse opportunities that, if exploited sys...
Cloning is extremely likely to occur in web sites, much more so than in other software. While some clones exist for valid reasons, or are too small to eliminate, cloning percentag...
Many web applications use a mixture of HTML and scripting language code as the front-end to business services. Analogously to traditional applications, redundant code is introduce...
Literature on the topic of code cloning often asserts that duplicating code within a software system is a bad practice, that it causes harm to the system's design and should b...
Server page technique is commonly used for implementing web application user interfaces. Server pages can represent many similar web pages in a generic form. Yet our previous stud...