Software clones are considered harmful in software maintenance and evolution. However, despite a decade of active research, there is a marked lack of work in the detection and ana...
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...
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...
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...
—There are numerous studies that examine whether or not cloned code is harmful to software systems. Yet, few of them study which characteristics of cloned code in particular lead...
Gehan M. K. Selim, Liliane Barbour, Weiyi Shang, B...