This paper presents a tree-pattern-based method of automatically and accurately finding code clones in program files. Duplicate tree-patterns are first collected by anti-unificati...
Legacy systems are often large and difficult to maintain, but rewriting them from scratch is usually not a viable option. Reenginering remains the only way to modernize them. We ...
Mariano Ceccato, Paolo Tonella, Cristina Matteotti
In the last decade, a great many code clone detection tools have been proposed. Such a large number of tools calls for a quantitative comparison, and there have been several attem...
Framework based application development is increasingly being adopted by software organizations. Frameworks provide reuse of both software design and code, and supply more trustab...
Maria Istela Cagnin, Rosana T. V. Braga, Rosangela...
Code clones are similar code fragments that occur at multiple locations in a software system. Detection of code clones provides useful information for maintenance, reengineering, ...