Background: Software security has drawn immense importance in the recent years. While
efforts are expected in minimizing security vulnerabilities in source code, the developers' …

Code clones are defined to be the identical or nearly similar code fragments in a code-base.
According to a number of existing studies, code clones are directly related to bugs and …

Code cloning has emerged as a controversial term in software engineering research and
practice because of its positive and negative impacts on software evolution and …

In-spite of a number of in-depth investigations regarding the impact of clones in the
maintenance phase there is no concrete answer to the long lived research question,“Does …

Exact or similar copies of code fragments in a code base are known as code clones. Code
clones are considered as one of the serious code smells. Stability is a widely investigated …

Code cloning is a recurrent operation in everyday software development. Whether it is a
good or bad practice is an ongoing debate among researchers and developers for the last …

Code cloning has been accepted as one of the general code reuse methods in software
development, thanks to the increasing demand in rapid software production. The …

Developers often perform copy-and-paste activities. This practice causes the similar code
fragment (aka code clones) to be scattered throughout a code base. Refactoring for clone …

Context: This paper presents a novel experiment focused on detecting and analyzing clones
in test suites written in TTCN-3, a standard telecommunication test script language, for …

Code cloning is a recurrent operation in everyday software development. Whether it is a
good or bad practice is an ongoing debate among researchers and developers for the last …