Plagiarism detection for Java: a tool comparison

  • Authors:
  • Jurriaan Hage;Peter Rademaker;Nikè van Vugt

  • Affiliations:
  • Utrecht University, TB Utrecht, The Netherlands;Utrecht University, TB Utrecht, The Netherlands;Open Universiteit Nederland, DL Heerlen, The Netherlands

  • Venue:
  • Computer Science Education Research Conference
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

In this paper we compare five tools for detecting plagiarism in Java source code texts: JPlag, Marble, moss, Plaggie, and sim. The tools are compared with respect to their features and performance. For the performance comparison we carried out two experiments: to compare the sensitivity of the tools for different plagiarism techniques we have applied the tools to a set of intentionally plagiarised programs. To get a picture of the precision of the tools, we have run the tools on several incarnations of a student assignment and compared the top 10's of the results.