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ICSE
2007
IEEE-ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Tracking Code Clones in Evolving Software
Code clones are generally considered harmful in software development, and the predominant approach is to try to eliminate them through refactoring. However, recent research has pr...
Ekwa Duala-Ekoko, Martin P. Robillard
ICSE
2008
IEEE-ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Clonetracker: tool support for code clone management
Code clones are generally considered to be an obstacle to software maintenance. Research has provided evidence that it may not always be practical, feasible, or cost-effective to ...
Ekwa Duala-Ekoko, Martin P. Robillard
TOSEM
2010
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13 years 2 months ago
Clone region descriptors: Representing and tracking duplication in source code
n the concept of abstract clone region descriptors (CRDs), which describe clone regions using a combination of their syntactic, structural, and lexical information. We present our ...
Ekwa Duala-Ekoko, Martin P. Robillard
ICSM
2009
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Scalable and incremental clone detection for evolving software
Code clone management has been shown to have several benefits for software developers. When source code evolves, clone management requires a mechanism to efficiently and increme...
Tung Thanh Nguyen, Hoan Anh Nguyen, Jafar M. Al-Ko...
MSR
2005
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Using a clone genealogy extractor for understanding and supporting evolution of code clones
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...
Miryung Kim, David Notkin