Code clones are generally considered to be an obstacle to software maintenance. Research has provided evidence that it may not always be practical, feasible, or cost-effective to ...
—Clones are generally considered bad programming practice in software engineering folklore. They are identified as a bad smell and a major contributor to project maintenance dif...
Foyzur Rahman, Christian Bird, Premkumar T. Devanb...
Duplicated code is a well known problem in software maintenance and refactoring. Code clones tend to increase program size and several studies have shown that duplicated code make...
The diffusion of service oriented architectures is slowed down by the lack of enough services available for satisfying service integrator needs. Nevertheless, many features desire...
Concettina Del Grosso, Massimiliano Di Penta, Igna...
In this paper, we present the APFEL plug-in that collects finegrained changes from version archives in a database. APFEL is built upon the Eclipse infrastructure for CVS and Java....