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...
Clones are code segments that have been created by copying-and-pasting from other code segments. Clones occur often in large software systems. It is reported that 5 to 50% of the ...
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 relevant consequence of the unceasing expansion of the Web and e-commerce is the growth of the demand of new Web sites and Web applications. The software industry is facing the ...
Giuseppe A. Di Lucca, Massimiliano Di Penta, Anna ...