A Survey of Code Clone Detection and Its Related Techniques

Yoshiki HIGO  Shinji KUSUMOTO  Katsuro INOUE 

Publication
D - Abstracts of IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information and Systems (Japanese Edition)  Vol.J91-D  No.6  pp.1465-1481
Publication Date: 2008/06/01
Online ISSN: 1881-0225
Print ISSN: 1880-4535
Type of Manuscript: PAPER
Category: 
Keyword: 
code clone,  software maintenance,  visualization,  refactoring, 

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Summary: 
Recently, studies on code clones have been active and they attract much attention. A code clone is a code fragment which has identical or similar code fragments to it in the source code. Code clone information makes us maintain software systems more effective and more efficient. In this paper, we introduce a survey of code clone detection and its related techniques.