Code clones are generally considered to be an obstacle to software maintenance. Research has provided evidence that it may not always be practical, feasible, or cost-effective to ...
Maintaining software systems is getting more complex and difficult task, as the scale becomes larger. It is generally said that code clone is one of the factors that make softwar...
Software clones are identical or similar pieces of code. They are often the result of copy–and–paste activities as ad-hoc code reuse by programmers. Software clones research i...
Katsuro Inoue, Stanislaw Jarzabek, James R. Cordy,...
Several techniques have been developed for identifying similar code fragments in programs. These similar fragments, referred to as code clones, can be used to identify redundant c...
Code clone management has been shown to have several benefits for software developers. When source code evolves, clone management requires a mechanism to efficiently and increme...
Tung Thanh Nguyen, Hoan Anh Nguyen, Jafar M. Al-Ko...