Two similar code segments, or clones, form a clone pair within a software system. The
changes to the clones over time create a clone evolution history. In this work, we study late …

Two similar code segments, or clones, form a clone pair within a software system. The
changes to the clones over time create a clone evolution history. In this work we study late …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Exact or nearly similar code fragments in a software system's source code are referred to as
code clones. It is often the case that updates (ie, changes) to a code clone will need to be …

When implementing new features into a software system, developers may duplicate several
lines of code to reuse some existing code segments. This action creates code clones in the …

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 …