Towards the Software Cloning: A Concept
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Similarity and duplicity of source code has a bad and good impact on software development and maintenance. The copying, modifying, renaming a block of codes are considered as a clones. Software cloning is a process of copying and pasting or finding some similarities between the software for major and minor modifications which are done by the developer to increase the productivity. Anecdotal evidence shows that to maintain the software code is much difficult than the software without code due to their maintenance cost which is increased by cloned codes. This paper discusses what is software cloning, its systematic view including clones analysis, clones detection and clones removal and their techniques and tools.
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