Duplicate code

Known as: Clone Detection, Code clone, Code duplication 
Duplicate code is a computer programming term for a sequence of source code that occurs more than once, either within a program or across different… (More)
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2010
2010
Is duplicate code more frequently modified than non-duplicate code in software evolution?: an empirical study on open source software
Various kinds of research efforts have been performed on the basis that the presence of duplicate code has a negative impact on… (More)
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2009
Highly Cited
2009
Comparison and evaluation of code clone detection techniques and tools: A qualitative approach
Over the last decade many techniques and tools for software clone detection have been proposed. In this paper, we provide a… (More)
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2008
2008
Duplicate code detection using anti-unification
This paper describes a new algorithm for finding software clones. It is conceptually independent of the source language of the… (More)
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2007
Highly Cited
2007
DECKARD: Scalable and Accurate Tree-Based Detection of Code Clones
Detecting code clones has many software engineering applications. Existing approaches either do not scale to large code bases or… (More)
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2005
Highly Cited
2005
An empirical study of code clone genealogies
It has been broadly assumed that code clones are inherently bad and that eliminating clones by refactoring would solve the… (More)
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2004
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2004
Managing Duplicated Code with Linked Editing
We present linked editing, a novel, lightweight editor-based technique for managing duplicated source code. Linked editing is… (More)
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2004
Highly Cited
2004
Insights into system-wide code duplication
Duplication of code is a common phenomenon in the development and maintenance of large software systems. The detection and… (More)
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2002
Highly Cited
2002
CCFinder: A Multilinguistic Token-Based Code Clone Detection System for Large Scale Source Code
ÐA code clone is a code portion in source files that is identical or similar to another. Since code clones are believed to reduce… (More)
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2001
Highly Cited
2001
Using Slicing to Identify Duplication in Source Code
Programs often have a lot of duplicated code, which makes both understanding and maintenance more difficult. This problem can be… (More)
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1999
Highly Cited
1999
A Language Independent Approach for Detecting Duplicated Code
Code duplication is one of the factors that severely complicates the maintenance and evolution of large software systems… (More)
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