Research at the intersection of machine learning, programming languages, and software
engineering has recently taken important steps in proposing learnable probabilistic models …

Refactoring and smells have been well researched by the software-engineering research
community these past decades. Several secondary studies have been published on code …

Code clone detection is an important problem for software maintenance and evolution. Many
approaches consider either structure or identifiers, but none of the existing detection …

The ecosystem of open source software (OSS) has been growing considerably in size. In
addition, code clones-code fragments that are copied and pasted within or between software …

(Good) Software documentation provides developers and users with a description of what a
software system does, how it operates, and how it should be used. For example, technical …

In theory,(good) documentation is an invaluable asset to any software project, as it helps
stakeholders to use, understand, maintain, and evolve a system. In practice, however …

CONTEXT: Reusing software by means of copy and paste is a frequent activity in software
development. The duplicated code is known as a software clone and the activity is known as …

Previous studies have shown that there is a non-trivial amount of duplication in source code.
This paper analyzes a corpus of 4.5 million non-fork projects hosted on GitHub representing …

Code cloning refers to the duplication of source code. It is the most common way of reusing
source code in software development. If a bug is identified in one segment of code, all the …

Over the last decade many techniques and tools for software clone detection have been
proposed. In this paper, we provide a qualitative comparison and evaluation of the current …