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ICSE
2009
IEEE-ACM
14 years 6 months ago
2009
IEEE-ACM
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...
ICSM
2008
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
2008
IEEE
Code clones are similar program structures recurring in software systems. Clone detectors produce much information and a challenge is to identify useful clones depending on the go...
SAS
2001
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
2001
Springer
Programs often have a lot of duplicated code, which makes both understanding and maintenance more difficult. This problem can be alleviated by detecting duplicated code, extracting...
MSR
2010
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
2010
ACM
—Clones are generally considered bad programming practice in software engineering folklore. They are identified as a bad smell and a major contributor to project maintenance dif...
C3S2E
2008
ACM
13 years 7 months ago
2008
ACM
In the last decade, a great many code clone detection tools have been proposed. Such a large number of tools calls for a quantitative comparison, and there have been several attem...