Abstract. Code clones have long been recognized as bad smells in software systems and are considered to cause maintenance problems during evolution. It is broadly assumed that the ...
Reto Geiger, Beat Fluri, Harald Gall, Martin Pinzg...
Despite the rapid evolution of Web technologies and development tools and skills, most Web sites fail (to varying degrees) to achieve their true business goals. This is at least pa...
Abstract. Developers express the meaning of the domain ideas in specifically selected identifiers and comments that form the target implemented code. Software maintenance requires ...
—Current research on code clones tries to address the question whether or not code clones are harmful for the quality of software. As most of these studies are based on the fine...
Nicolas Bettenburg, Weiyi Shang, Walid Ibrahim, Br...
As an object-oriented system evolves, its architecture tends to drift away from the original design. Knowledge of how the system has changed at coarse-grained levels is key to und...