A code clone represents a sequence of statements that are duplicated in multiple locations of a program. Clones often arise in source code as a result of multiple cut/paste operat...
Code cloning is widely recognized as a threat to the maintainability of source code. As such, many clone detection and removal strategies have been proposed. However, some clones ...
Generics (templates) attempt to unify similar program structures to avoid redundancy. How well do generics serve this purpose in practice? We try to answer this question through e...
Hamid Abdul Basit, Damith C. Rajapakse, Stan Jarza...
Data mining is a technology recently used in support of software maintenance in various contexts. Our works focuses on achieving a high level understanding of Java systems without...
Duplicated code is a well known problem in software maintenance and refactoring. Code clones tend to increase program size and several studies have shown that duplicated code make...