A comparative study on the intensity and harmfulness of late propagation in near-miss code clones

M Mondal, CK Roy, KA Schneider - Software Quality Journal, 2016 - Springer
… in propagating a change is referred to as ‘late propagation,’ … of late propagation nor how
late propagation differs by clonelate propagation separately for each of the three clone types (…

Is Late Propagation a Harmful Code Clone Evolutionary Pattern? An Empirical Study

O Ehsan, L Barbour, F Khomh, Y Zou - … Clone Analysis: Research, Tools …, 2021 - Springer
… -proneness of clone pairs that undergo late propagation. The … presence of late propagated
clone pairs in software systems. … in studying the effects of late propagation on clone pairs. The …

Bug propagation through code cloning: An empirical study

M Mondal, CK Roy… - … Conference on Software …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
… to late propagation clones only. We perform our study considering all clone fragments of
a software system. Barbour et al. did not investigate bug-propagation. We investigate bug-…

An empirical study on bug propagation through code cloning

M Mondal, B Roy, CK Roy, KA Schneider - … of Systems and Software, 2019 - Elsevier
… to late propagation clones only. We perform our study considering all clone fragments of
a software system. Barbour et al. did not investigate bug-propagation. We investigate bug-…

An investigation of the fault-proneness of clone evolutionary patterns

L Barbour, L An, F Khomh, Y Zou, S Wang - Software Quality Journal, 2018 - Springer
… faults in software clones using clone genealogy information? One snapshot of a software
system … They found that late propagation occurs more frequently in type 3 clones. They also …

Micro-clones in evolving software

M Mondai, CK Roy… - … Conference on Software …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
clones (ie, code clones of less than five lines of code) in consistent updating of the code-base.
While the existing clone detectors and trackers have ignored micro cloneslate propagation

[PDF][PDF] A survey of software clone detection techniques

A Sheneamer, J Kalita - International Journal of Computer …, 2016 - scholar.archive.org
… maintenance and cause bug propagation. … discusses how clone detection can assist in other
areas of software engineering and … Later, they propose two additional methods for detecting …

Predicting change propagation between code clone instances by graph-based deep learning

B Hu, Y Wu, X Peng, C Sha, X Wang, B Fu… - Proceedings of the 30th …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
… type of late propagation, called late consistent … propagation between code clone instances
because there is a significant proportion of late propagation changes in some software

Is cloned code really stable?

M Mondal, MS Rahman, CK Roy… - Empirical Software …, 2018 - Springer
… In the previous study (Lozano and Wermelinger 2008) several issues such as clone families,
inclusion and exclusion of clones in families as well as late propagation of changes were …

Tool support for managing clone refactorings to facilitate code review in evolving software

Z Chen, M Mohanavilasam, YW Kwon… - … Computer Software …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
… time managing individual clone instances or clone groups scattered … for managing clone
refactorings, Patternbased cloneLate propagation in software clones. In Proc. of ICSM, pages …