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

Bad smells are sub-optimal code structures that may represent problems needing attention.
We conduct an extensive literature review on bad smells relying on a large body of …

Despite a decade of active research, there has been a marked lack in clone detection
techniques that scale to large repositories for detecting near-miss clones. In this paper, we …

Copying code and then pasting with large number of edits is a common activity in software
development, and the pasted code is a kind of complicated Type-3 clone. Due to large …

During software development, developers introduce code clones by reusing existing code to
improve programming productivity. Considering the detrimental effects on software …

The presence of duplicated code in software systems is significant and several studies have
shown that clones can be potentially harmful with respect to the maintainability and …

Context: Research related to code clones includes detection of clones in software systems,
analysis, visualization and management of clones. Detection of semantic clones and …

Refactoring is the de-facto practice to optimize software health. While several studies
propose refactoring strategies to optimize software design through applying design patterns …

Smart contracts are programs deployed on blockchains that run upon meeting
predetermined conditions. Once deployed, smart contracts are immutable, thus, defects in …

Code clone detection is a well-known software engineering problem that aims to detect all
the groups of code blocks or code fragments that are functionally equivalent in a code base …