—During the evolution of a software system, a large amount of information, which is not always directly related to the source code, is produced. Several researchers have provided...
Alberto Bacchelli, Marco D'Ambros, Michele Lanza, ...
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...
Similarity analysis of source code is helpful during development to provide, for instance, better support for code reuse. Consider a development environment that analyzes code whi...
Tobias Sager, Abraham Bernstein, Martin Pinzger, C...
—Although popular text search engines allow users to retrieve similar web pages, source code search engines do not have this feature. Detecting similar applications is a notoriou...
Developers perform small-scale reuse tasks to save time and to increase the quality of their code. Due to the small scale of such tasks, the overhead in reusing source code can qu...