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...
Code cloning is widely recognized as a threat to the maintainability of source code. As such, many clone detection and removal strategies have been proposed. However, some clones ...
A well-known bad code smell in refactoring and software maintenance is duplicated code, or code clones. A code clone is a code fragment that is identical or similar to another. Un...
Code clones are similar program structures recurring in software systems. Clone detectors produce much information and a challenge is to identify useful clones depending on the go...
Yali Zhang, Hamid Abdul Basit, Stan Jarzabek, Dang...
Recent research results have shown more benefits of the management of code clones, rather than detecting and removing them. However, existing clone management approaches are stil...
Tung Thanh Nguyen, Hoan Anh Nguyen, Nam H. Pham, J...