Code Cloning is regarded as a threat to software maintenance, because it is generally assumed that a change to a code clone usually has to be applied to the other clones of the cl...
—Current research on code clones tries to address the question whether or not code clones are harmful for the quality of software. As most of these studies are based on the fine...
Nicolas Bettenburg, Weiyi Shang, Walid Ibrahim, Br...
The new hybrid clone detection tool NICAD combines the strengths and overcomes the limitations of both textbased and AST-based clone detection techniques to yield highly accurate ...
Despite the conventional wisdom concerning the risks related to the use of source code cloning as a software development strategy, several studies appeared in literature indicated...
Lerina Aversano, Luigi Cerulo, Massimiliano Di Pen...