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 …

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 …

Exploiting machine learning techniques for analyzing programs has attracted much
attention. One key problem is how to represent code fragments well for follow-up analysis …

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 …

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. We previously …

There have been a great many methods and tools proposed for software clone detection.
While some work has been done on assessing and comparing performance of these tools …

As one of bad smells in code, code clones may increase the cost of software maintenance
and the risk of vulnerability propagation. In the past two decades, numerous clone detection …

An abundant number of clone detection tools have been proposed in the literature due to the
many applications and benefits of clone detection. However, there has been difficulty in the …

Many clone detection tools and techniques have been created to tackle various use-cases,
including syntactical clone detection, semantic clone detection, inter-project clone detection …

A code clone is a pair of code fragments, within or between software systems that are
similar. Since code clones often negatively impact the maintainability of a software system …