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 …

Managing clones proactively is one of the hot research areas under Software Cloning
domain. Researchers of the Clone Research Community argue that it is better to avoid …

Code clone is a portion of codes that contains some similarities in the same software
regardless of changes made to the specific code such as removal of white spaces and …

Cloning is an easy way of reusing the software. Some of the studies revealed that about 25-
30 per cent of code in long term software development project may have been cloned …

This technical report details the methodology for identifying papers for a mapping study on
code cloning. The report includes the papers which were identified the searches and passed …

Programmers often copy and paste source code in order to reuse an existing solution in the
completion of a current task. Copying and pasting results in code clones (similar code …