Code cloning is not only assumed to inflate maintenance costs but also considered defect-prone as inconsistent changes to code duplicates can lead to unexpected behavior. Conseque...
Abstract. Structure-oriented approaches in clone detection have become popular in both code-based and model-based clone detection. However, existing methods for capturing structura...
Hoan Anh Nguyen, Tung Thanh Nguyen, Nam H. Pham, J...
Identifying code duplication in large multi-platform software systems is a challenging problem. This is due to a variety of reasons including the presence of high-level programmin...
Crosscutting concerns are software system features whose implementation is spread across many modules as tangled and scattered code. Identifying such code helps developers to chan...
Gerardo Canfora, Luigi Cerulo, Massimiliano Di Pen...
Within a long-term distributed systems project we repeatedly stumbled across the well-known yet difficult question to either implement from scratch or comprehend and adapt existin...