Traditional quantitative research methods of data collection in programming, such as
questionnaires and interviews, are the most common approaches for researchers in this …

Bad smells are sub-optimal code structures that may represent problems needing attention.
We conduct an extensive literature review on bad smells relying on a large body of …

Nowadays, in addition to traditional procedures, the use of eye movement tracking systems
can be an alternative possibility, to analyse the effectiveness of different programming …

Eye tracking is becoming more and more important as a research method within the field of
software engineering (SE). Existing meta-analyses focus on the design or conduct of SE eye …

Knowing code clones (similar code fragments) is helpful in software maintenance and re-
engineering. As clone detectors return huge numbers of clones, visualization techniques …

Detecting and tracking code clones can ease various software development and
maintenance tasks when changes in a code fragment should be propagated over all its …

Eye movement tracking systems offer the opportunity to observe and study a complex
cognitive process such as programming. As a consequence of the growing number of …

Many techniques have been developed over the years to detect code clones in different
software systems to maintain security measures. These techniques often require the source …

In recent years, there has been a growing consensus among researchers regarding the dual
nature of code clones. While some instances of code are valuable for reuse or extraction as …

Code clone detection is a very hot topic in the field of software maintenance, reuseability
and security. There is still a lack of techniques to detect near-miss clones at different level of …