Removing clones from the code

Local Independence Transformation and Its Application to Removing Nonduplicate Statements in Code Clones

This paper proposes a new program transformation technique and describes its application to removing nonduplicate statements in code clones while preserving the semantics of the program. Allowing nonduplicate statements in code clones helps in finding larger code clones. However, the nonduplicate statements in code clones may induce unexpected difficulty and complexity when we analyze the softw...

Identifying Refactoring Opportunities for Removing Code Clones with A Metrics-based Approach

An Algorithm for Detecting and Removing Clones in Java Code

This paper proposes a new algorithm for automatically detecting and removing duplicated code in existing Java programs. Its purpose is to improve the structure of small code snippets (as in refactoring), rather than reducing the overall redundancy in huge legacy programs. As such, approaches that favor code clarity over efficiency are introduced. The skeleton of our algorithm is presented and i...

A Technique for Identifying and Testing Structural Clones in Large Scale Systems

Clones have played an important role in increasing the software’s maintenance and decreasing the quality. Hence detecting the clones and removing them has been an interesting scenario. Detecting clones not only improves the productivity of software but also enhances re-usability. A number of techniques were presented in the past but they have had there own drawbacks. Efficient algorithms are cr...

Review Paper on Implementing Laxical Approach of Clone Detection and Removal for Type-3

Software Systems are evolving by adding new functions and modifying existing functions over time. Through the evolution process, copy paste programming and other processes leads to duplication of data resulting in model clones or code clones. Since clones are believed to reduce the maintainability of software. Several code clone detection techniques and tools have been proposed. This paper prop...