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 …

Bad smells are symptoms that something may be wrong in the system design or code. There
are many bad smells defined in the literature and detecting them is far from trivial. Therefore …

Code cloning is not only assumed to inflate maintenance costs but also considered defect-
prone as inconsistent changes to code duplicates can lead to unexpected behavior …

Many clone detection tools have been proposed in the literature. However, our knowledge of
their performance in real software systems is limited, particularly their recall. In this paper …

Measuring and evaluating source code similarity is a fundamental software engineering
activity that embraces a broad range of applications, including but not limited to code …

The authors define a reference model for applying formal methods to the development of
user requirements and their reduction to a behavioral system specification. The approach …

Duplicated code or code clones are a kind of code smell that have both positive and
negative impacts on the development and maintenance of software systems. Software clone …

Clone detection finds application in many software engineering activities such as
comprehension and refactoring. However, the confounding configuration choice problem …

Although Software Product Lines are recurrently praised as an efficient paradigm for
systematic reuse, practical adoption remains challenging. For bottom-up Software Product …

Although numerous different clone detection approaches have been proposed to date, not a
single one is both incremental and scalable to very large code bases. They thus cannot …