This report summarizes my overview talk on software clone detection research. It first
discusses the notion of software redundancy, cloning, duplication, and similarity. Then, it …

Refactoring detection is crucial for a variety of applications and tasks:(i) empirical studies
about code evolution,(ii) tools for library API migration,(iii) code reviews and change …

Refactoring detection algorithms have been crucial to a variety of applications:(i) empirical
studies about the evolution of code, tests, and faults,(ii) tools for library API migration,(iii) …

The ability to evolve software rapidly and reliably is a major challenge for software
engineering. In this introductory chapter we start with a historic overview of the research …

Knowing which types of refactoring occurred between two program versions can help
programmers better understand code changes. Our survey of refactoring identification …

Refactorings are-as defined by Fowler-behavior preserving source code transformations.
Their main purpose is to improve maintainability or comprehensibility, or also reduce the …

Knowing which parts of a system underwent which types of refactoring between two program
versions can help programmers better understand code changes. Though there are a …

Software design problems are known and perceived under many different terms such as bad
smells, flaws, non-compliance to design principles, violation of heuristics, excessive metric …

Software frameworks and libraries are indispensable to today's software systems. As they
evolve, it is often time-consuming for developers to keep their code up-to-date, so …

Compared to other programming languages (eg, Java), Python has more idioms to make
Python code concise and efficient. Although pythonic idioms are well accepted in the Python …