Towards flexible code clone detection, management, and refactoring in IDE

Authors:
Minhaz F. Zibran;Chanchal K. Roy
Affiliations:
University of Saskatchewan, Saskatchewan, Canada;University of Saskatchewan, Saskatchewan, Canada
Venue:
Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Software Clones
Year:
2011

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Abstract

In this paper, we propose an IDE-based clone management system to flexibly detect, manage, and refactor both exact and near-miss code clones. Using a k-difference hybrid suffix tree algorithm we can efficiently detect both exact and near-miss clones. We have implemented the algorithm as a plugin to the Eclipse IDE, and have been extending this for real-time code clone management with semi-automated refactoring support during the actual development process.