A Taxonomy of Clones in Source Code: The Re–Engineers Most Wanted List

Authors: Cory J. Kapser Michael W. Godfrey

Venue: 2nd International Workshop on Detection of Software Clones, 2004

Year: 2004

Abstract: Code cloning --- that is, the gratuitous duplication of source code within a software system --- is an endemic problem in large, industrial systems [6, 5]. While there has been much research into techniques for clone detection and analysis, there has been relatively little empirical study on characterizing how, where, and why clones occur in industrial software systems. Our current research is to perform an in-depth analysis of code cloning in real software systems and to build a taxonomy of types of code duplication.

BibTeX:

@inproceedings{coryj.kapser2004atocisctrmwl,
    author = "Cory J. Kapser and Michael W. Godfrey",
    title = "A Taxonomy of Clones in Source Code: The Re–Engineers Most Wanted List",
    year = "2004",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Detection of Software Clones"
}

Plain Text:

Cory J. Kapser and Michael W. Godfrey, "A Taxonomy of Clones in Source Code: The Re–Engineers Most Wanted List," 2nd International Workshop on Detection of Software Clones