In previous work, we described a technique for detecting designlevel similar program
structures that we called structural clones. Structural clones are recurring configurations of …

There are numerous studies that examine whether or not cloned code is harmful to software
systems. Yet, few of them study which characteristics of cloned code in particular lead to …

Exchange and inspection of clone information is an essential building block of successful
clone management. Until now, a variety of different formats and tools for handling clone data …

It is still a debated question whether cloned code causes increased maintenance efforts. If
cloned code is more stable than non-cloned code, ie it is changed less often, it will require …

Finding, understanding and managing software clones-passages of duplicated source code-
is of large interest in research and practice. There is an abundance of techniques to detect …

Code cloning is a controversial software engineering practice due to contradictory claims
regarding its effect on software maintenance. Code stability is a recently introduced …

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

Code clones have always been a double edged sword in software development. On one
hand, it is a very convenient way to reuse existing code, and to save coding effort. On the …

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 …

The new hybrid clone detection tool NICAD combines the strengths and overcomes the
limitations of both text‐based and AST‐based clone detection techniques and exploits novel …