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Detection Technology and Application of Clone Refactoring

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ICMSS 2018: Proceedings of the 2018 2nd International Conference on Management Engineering, Software Engineering and Service Sciences

Pages 128 - 133

https://doi.org/10.1145/3180374.3181332

Published: 13 January 2018 Publication History

Abstract

Clone code is a similar part of code, such code may seriously affect the maintainability of the software and reduce the quality of code. In order to eliminate the negative impact of clone code, the researchers offer many methods to eliminate clone code and refactoring is an important part in them. In this paper, several different methods and tools are introduced, the advantages and disadvantages of various methods and tools are summarized, apart from this, we also describe the important application of clone refactoring in maintaining the quality of code, at last, we discussed the challenges of the current clone refactoring detection.

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Baars SOprescu A(2023)Finding Code Clone Refactoring Techniques by Mapping Clone ContextComposability, Comprehensibility and Correctness of Working Software10.1007/978-3-031-42833-3_9(344-357)Online publication date: 18-Oct-2023
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Fengrong ZLiping ZJunqi Z(2019)Research on the Tools of Clone Code RefactoringProceedings of the 2019 3rd International Conference on Management Engineering, Software Engineering and Service Sciences10.1145/3312662.3312693(27-31)Online publication date: 12-Jan-2019
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3312662.3312693

Index Terms

Detection Technology and Application of Clone Refactoring
1. Software and its engineering
  1. Software organization and properties
    1. Software functional properties
      1. Formal methods
        Automated static analysis

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DOI:10.1145/3180374

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Baars SOprescu A(2023)Finding Code Clone Refactoring Techniques by Mapping Clone ContextComposability, Comprehensibility and Correctness of Working Software10.1007/978-3-031-42833-3_9(344-357)Online publication date: 18-Oct-2023
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Fengrong ZLiping ZJunqi Z(2019)Research on the Tools of Clone Code RefactoringProceedings of the 2019 3rd International Conference on Management Engineering, Software Engineering and Service Sciences10.1145/3312662.3312693(27-31)Online publication date: 12-Jan-2019
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3312662.3312693

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