Programmers often create similar code snippets or reuse existing code snippets by copying and pasting. Code clones —syntactically and semantically similar code snippets—can ca...
A long-standing goal of software engineering is to construct software that is easily modified and extended. Recent advances in software design techniques, such as aspect-oriented ...
Many modeling languages share some common concepts and principles. For example, Java, MOF, and UML share some aspects of the concepts of classes, methods, attributes, and inheritan...
We report on the development of a tool which supports software programmers in programming to an interface by providing just in time (JIT) solutions. The development of the tool wa...
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...