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A Language Independent Approach for Detecting Duplicated Code

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A Language Independent Approach for Detecting Duplicated Code
Code duplication is one of the factors that severely complicates the maintenance and evolution of large software systems. Techniques for detecting duplicated code exist but rely mostly on parsers, technology that has proven to be brittle in the face of different languages and dialects. In this paper we show that is possible to circumvent this hindrance by applying a language independent and visual approach, i.e. a tool that requires no parsing, yet is able to detect a significant amount of code duplication. We validate our approach on a number of case studies, involving four different implementation languages and ranging from 256 K up to 13Mb of source code size.
Stéphane Ducasse, Matthias Rieger, Serge De
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Type Conference
Year 1999
Where ICSM
Authors Stéphane Ducasse, Matthias Rieger, Serge Demeyer
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