It is generally said that code clone is one of the factors to make software maintenance difficult. A code clone is a code portion in source files that is identical or similar to...
Abstract. An overview of the concept of program similarity is presented. It divides similarity into two types--syntactic and semantic-and provides a review of eight categories of m...
Andrew Walenstein, Mohammad El-Ramly, James R. Cor...
Software inspection is a known technique for improving software quality. It involves carefully examining the code, the design, and the documentation of software and checking these...
Code duplication, plausibly caused by copying source code and slightly modifying it, is often observed in large systems. Clone detection and documentation have been investigated b...
Magdalena Balazinska, Ettore Merlo, Michel Dagenai...
Background: Gene duplication events have played a significant role in genome evolution, particularly in plants. Exhaustive searches for all members of a known gene family as well ...