Code clone has been regarded as one of factors that make software maintenance more difficult. A code clone is a code fragment in a source code that is identical or similar to anot...
—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...
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...
Copy-paste programming is dangerous as it may lead to hidden dependencies between different parts of the system. Modifying clones is not always straight forward, because we might ...
In this paper, we propose a scalable instant code clone search engine for large-scale software repositories. While there are commercial code search engines available, they treat s...