Literature on the topic of code cloning often asserts that duplicating code within a software system is a bad practice, that it causes harm to the system's design and should b...
Current literature on the topic of duplicated (cloned) code in software systems often considers duplication harmful to the system quality and the reasons commonly cited for duplic...
ion, reviews, rigorous procedures, regression testing, metrics, and so forth) have been helpful, but we are still dealing with an intrinsically unsatisfactory situation. Especially...
In fast-paced software projects, engineers don’t have the time or the resources to build heavyweight complete descriptions of their software. The best they can do is lightweight ...
In a survey we found that most developers have experienced duplicated bug reports, however, only few considered them as a serious problem. This contradicts popular wisdom that con...
Nicolas Bettenburg, Rahul Premraj, Thomas Zimmerma...