Analysis patterns: reusable objects models
Analysis patterns: reusable objects models
Refactoring: improving the design of existing code
Refactoring: improving the design of existing code
CCFinder: a multilinguistic token-based code clone detection system for large scale source code
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Measuring Clone Based Reengineering Opportunities
METRICS '99 Proceedings of the 6th International Symposium on Software Metrics
Aiding Comprehension of Cloning Through Categorization
IWPSE '04 Proceedings of the Principles of Software Evolution, 7th International Workshop
Comparison and Evaluation of Clone Detection Tools
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Scenario-Based Comparison of Clone Detection Techniques
ICPC '08 Proceedings of the 2008 The 16th IEEE International Conference on Program Comprehension
A Data Mining Approach for Detecting Higher-Level Clones in Software
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Model comparison with GenericDiff
Proceedings of the IEEE/ACM international conference on Automated software engineering
Method differentiator using slice-based cohesion metrics
Proceedings of the 12th annual international conference companion on Aspect-oriented software development
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Clone detection provides a scalable and efficient way to detect similar code fragments. But it offers limited explanation of differences of functions performed by clones and variations of control and data flows of clones. We refer to such differences as semantic differences of clones. Understanding these semantic differences is essential to correctly interpret cloning information and perform maintenance tasks on clones. Manual analysis of semantic differences of clones is complicated and error-prone. In the paper, we present our clone analysis tool, called Clone-Differentiator. Our tool automatically characterizes clones returned by a clone detector by differentiating Program Dependence Graphs (PDGs) of clones. CloneDifferentiator is able to provide a precise characterization of semantic differences of clones. It can provide an effective means of analyzing clones in a task oriented manner.