Poulose Jacob,K; Anupama, Surendran; Philip, Samuel(IEEE, December 11, 2011)
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Abstract:
Code clones are portions of source code which are
similar to the original program code. The presence of code clones
is considered as a bad feature of software as the maintenance of
software becomes difficult due to the presence of code clones.
Methods for code clone detection have gained immense
significance in the last few years as they play a significant role in
engineering applications such as analysis of program code,
program understanding, plagiarism detection, error detection,
code compaction and many more similar tasks. Despite of all
these facts, several features of code clones if properly utilized can
make software development process easier. In this work, we have
pointed out such a feature of code clones which highlight the
relevance of code clones in test sequence identification. Here
program slicing is used in code clone detection. In addition, a
classification of code clones is presented and the benefit of using
program slicing in code clone detection is also mentioned in this
work.
Description:
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