CSC/ECE 517 Fall 2009/wiki3 2 clone
Clone Detection and Clone Manipulation
Clone Detection
"Software clones are segments of code that are similar according to some definition of similarity" —Ira Baxter, 2002[1]. As per this definition, two code snippets may be similar based on text, syntactic structure or semantics or if they follow same pattern.
Clone Manipulation
Clone Detection Tools
Comparing With Refactoring
Conclusion
See Also
References
1. http://drops.dagstuhl.de/opus/volltexte/2007/962/pdf/06301.KoschkeRainer.962.pdf