A relevant consequence of the unceasing expansion of the Web and e-commerce is the growth of the demand of new Web sites and Web applications. The software industry is facing the ...
Giuseppe A. Di Lucca, Massimiliano Di Penta, Anna ...
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...
Previous research shows that most software systems contain significant amounts of duplicated, or cloned, code. Some clones are exact duplicates of each other, while others differ ...
Due to the negative impact of code cloning on software maintenance efforts as well as on program correctness [4–6], the duplication of code is generally viewed as problematic. ...
Florian Deissenboeck, Benjamin Hummel, Elmar J&uum...
In modern software engineering, researchers regard a software system as an organic life form that must continue to evolve to remain successful. Unfortunately, little is known abou...