Parameterized Duplication in Strings: Algorithms and an Application to Software Maintenance
SIAM Journal on Computing
CCFinder: a multilinguistic token-based code clone detection system for large scale source code
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Experiment on the Automatic Detection of Function Clones in a Software System Using Metrics
ICSM '96 Proceedings of the 1996 International Conference on Software Maintenance
Using Slicing to Identify Duplication in Source Code
SAS '01 Proceedings of the 8th International Symposium on Static Analysis
On Detection of Gapped Code Clones using Gap Locations
APSEC '02 Proceedings of the Ninth Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference
Advanced Clone-Analysis to Support Object-Oriented System Refactoring
WCRE '00 Proceedings of the Seventh Working Conference on Reverse Engineering (WCRE'00)
Identifying Similar Code with Program Dependence Graphs
WCRE '01 Proceedings of the Eighth Working Conference on Reverse Engineering (WCRE'01)
Clone Detection Using Abstract Syntax Trees
ICSM '98 Proceedings of the International Conference on Software Maintenance
A Language Independent Approach for Detecting Duplicated Code
ICSM '99 Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance
Identifying redundancy in source code using fingerprints
CASCON '93 Proceedings of the 1993 conference of the Centre for Advanced Studies on Collaborative research: software engineering - Volume 1
Managing Duplicated Code with Linked Editing
VLHCC '04 Proceedings of the 2004 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages - Human Centric Computing
An empirical study of code clone genealogies
Proceedings of the 10th European software engineering conference held jointly with 13th ACM SIGSOFT international symposium on Foundations of software engineering
CP-Miner: Finding Copy-Paste and Related Bugs in Large-Scale Software Code
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
DECKARD: Scalable and Accurate Tree-Based Detection of Code Clones
ICSE '07 Proceedings of the 29th international conference on Software Engineering
How Clones are Maintained: An Empirical Study
CSMR '07 Proceedings of the 11th European Conference on Software Maintenance and Reengineering
Evaluating the Harmfulness of Cloning: A Change Based Experiment
MSR '07 Proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop on Mining Software Repositories
Context-based detection of clone-related bugs
Proceedings of the the 6th joint meeting of the European software engineering conference and the ACM SIGSOFT symposium on The foundations of software engineering
A Study of Consistent and Inconsistent Changes to Code Clones
WCRE '07 Proceedings of the 14th Working Conference on Reverse Engineering
"Cloning considered harmful" considered harmful: patterns of cloning in software
Empirical Software Engineering
ICSE '09 Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Software Engineering
An empirical study on the maintenance of source code clones
Empirical Software Engineering
Clone-Aware Configuration Management
ASE '09 Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering
Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Software Clones
Empirical Software Engineering
An empirical study on the impact of duplicate code
Advances in Software Engineering - Special issue on Software Quality Assurance Methodologies and Techniques
Can I clone this piece of code here?
Proceedings of the 27th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering
Evaluating the conventional wisdom in clone removal: a genealogy-based empirical study
Proceedings of the 28th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing
Understanding the evolution of type-3 clones: an exploratory study
Proceedings of the 10th Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories
Active support for clone refactoring: a perspective
Proceedings of the 2013 ACM workshop on Workshop on refactoring tools
Genealogical insights into the facts and fictions of clone removal
ACM SIGAPP Applied Computing Review
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Code Clones - duplicated source fragments - are said to increase maintenance effort and to facilitate problems caused by inconsistent changes to identical parts. While this is certainly true for some clones and certainly not true for others, it is unclear how many clones are real threats to the system's quality and need to be taken care of. Our analysis of clone evolution in mature software projects shows that most clones are rarely changed and the number of unintentional inconsistent changes to clones is small. We thus have to carefully select the clones to be managed to avoid unnecessary effort managing clones with no risk potential.