Code duplication, plausibly caused by copying source code and slightly modifying it, is often observed in large systems. Clone detection and documentation have been investigated b...
Magdalena Balazinska, Ettore Merlo, Michel Dagenai...
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 clones in software increase maintenance cost and lower software quality. We have devised a new algorithm to detect duplicated parts of source code in large software. Our algo...
Existing software systems contain a significant amount of duplicated code. Such redundancy can negatively impact program correctness, since inconsistent updates to duplicated code ...
Due to the negative impact of code cloning on software maintenance efforts as well as on program correctness [4–6], the duplication of code is generally viewed as problematic. ...
Florian Deissenboeck, Benjamin Hummel, Elmar J&uum...