Source code clones are copies or near-copies of other portions of code, often created by copying and pasting portions of source code. This working session is concerned with buildi...
Arun Lakhotia, Junwei Li, Andrew Walenstein, Yun Y...
Clones are code segments that have been created by copying-and-pasting from other code segments. Clones occur often in large software systems. It is reported that 5 to 50% of the ...
Software clones are identical or similar pieces of code. They are often the result of copy–and–paste activities as ad-hoc code reuse by programmers. Software clones research i...
Katsuro Inoue, Stanislaw Jarzabek, James R. Cordy,...
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...
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...