During the maintenance of a program, not only the source code but also the code clones
contained in it evolve. Some recent studies focused on detecting patterns in the history of …

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 …

Finding, understanding and managing software clones—passages of duplicated source
code—is of large interest in research and practice. Analyzing the evolution of clones across …

Effort for development and maintenance of complex large software is believed to have
dependency on the amount of duplicated code fragments (code clones) present in code …

Duplicated passages of source code-code clones-are a common property of software
systems. While clones are beneficial in some situations, their presence causes various …

Code clones have long been recognized as bad smells in software systems and are
assumed to cause maintenance problems during their evolution. We can identify these …

Code cloning has been very often indicated as a bad software development practice.
However, many studies appearing in the literature indicate that this is not always the case. In …

It is believed by many academic and industrial experts, that source code cloning
(copy&paste programming) represents a significant threat to maintainability in an evolving …

Extracting code clone genealogies across multiple versions of a program and classifying
them according to their change patterns underlies the study of code clone evolution. While …

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 …