It is generally said that code clone is one of the factors to make software maintenance difficult. A code clone is a code portion in source files that is identical or similar to...
A well-known bad code smell in refactoring and software maintenance is duplicated code, that is the existence of code clones, which are code fragments that are identical or similar...
Duplicated code is a well known problem in software maintenance and refactoring. Code clones tend to increase program size and several studies have shown that duplicated code make...
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...
Software developers often duplicate source code to replicate functionality. This practice can hinder the maintenance of a software project: bugs may arise when two identical code ...