TSE
2002
13 years 9 months ago
2002
ACMSE
2006
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
2006
ACM
A code clone represents a sequence of statements that are duplicated in multiple locations of a program. Clones often arise in source code as a result of multiple cut/paste operat...
FASE
2006
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
2006
Springer
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 ...
APSEC
2007
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
2007
IEEE
Maintaining software systems becomes more difficult as their size and complexity increase. One factor that makes software maintenance more difficult is the presence of code clones...
PEPM
2009
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
2009
ACM
A well-known bad code smell in refactoring and software maintenance is duplicated code, or code clones. A code clone is a code fragment that is identical or similar to another. Un...
METRICS
2002
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
2002
IEEE
Maintaining software systems is getting more complex and difficult task, as the scale becomes larger. It is generally said that code clone is one of the factors that make softwar...
PROFES
2004
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
2004
Springer
Abstract. Software maintenance is the most expensive activity in software development. Many software companies spent a large amount of cost to maintain the existing software system...
MSR
2005
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
2005
ACM
Programmers often create similar code snippets or reuse existing code snippets by copying and pasting. Code clones —syntactically and semantically similar code snippets—can ca...
IWPC
2006
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
2006
IEEE
Copy-paste programming is dangerous as it may lead to hidden dependencies between different parts of the system. Modifying clones is not always straight forward, because we might ...
SCAM
2008
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
2008
IEEE
This paper presents a study on the stability of cloned code. The results from an analysis of 200 weeks of evolution of five software system show that the stability as measured by...