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 …

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 …

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 …

Several studies have been proposed in the literature on software clones from different points
of view and covering many correlated features and areas, which are particularly relevant to …

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 …

CONTEXT: Reusing software by means of copy and paste is a frequent activity in software
development. The duplicated code is known as a software clone and the activity is known as …

Cloning source code is a common practice in the software development process. In general,
the number of code clones increases in proportion to the growth of the code base. It is …

Over the last decade many techniques and tools for software clone detection have been
proposed. In this paper, we provide a qualitative comparison and evaluation of the current …

A code clone is a pair of code fragments, within or between software systems that are
similar. Since code clones often negatively impact the maintainability of a software system …