Clone management has drawn immense interest from the research community in recent
years. It is recognized that a deep understanding of how code clones change and are …

Clone management has drawn immense interest from the research community in recent
years. It is recognized that a deep understanding of how code clones change and are …

The literature presents conflicting claims regarding the effects of clones on software
maintainability. For a community to progress, it is important to identify and address those …

Code clone genealogies show how clone groups evolve with the evolution of the associated
software system, and thus could provide important insights on the maintenance implications …

Although potential benefits are frequently mentioned in the literature, empirical evidence is
missing to concretize the costs and benefits of clone management. Without precise …

It has been broadly assumed that code clones are inherently bad and that eliminating clones
by refactoring would solve the problems of code clones. To investigate the validity of this …

Detection of code clones—similar or identical source code fragments—is of concern both to
researchers and to practitioners. An analysis of the clone detection results for a single …

Code Clones-duplicated source fragments-are said to increase maintenance effort and to
facilitate problems caused by inconsistent changes to identical parts. While this is certainly …

It is believed that identical or similar code fragments in source code, also known as code
clones, have an impact on software maintenance. A clone genealogy shows how a group of …

1 Yearly number of distinct authors contributing to clone research... 5 2 Categories of
publications on software clone research in different years 5 3 Proportion of publications in …