Code clone detection using string based tree matching technique

As the world of computers is rapidly evolving, there is a tremendous need of software development for different purposes. As we can see today, the complexity of the software being developed is different from one to another. Sometimes, developers take the easier way of implementation by copying some...

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Main Authors: Selamat, Ali, Wahid, Norfaradilla
Other Authors: Gang, Wu
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Published: InTech 2010
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http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/7303
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spelling my.utm.312132017-02-05T00:16:22Z http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/31213/ Code clone detection using string based tree matching technique Selamat, Ali Wahid, Norfaradilla QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science As the world of computers is rapidly evolving, there is a tremendous need of software development for different purposes. As we can see today, the complexity of the software being developed is different from one to another. Sometimes, developers take the easier way of implementation by copying some fragments of the existing programs and use the codes in their work. This kind of work is known as code cloning. Somehow the attitude of cloning can lead to the other issues of software development, for example plagiarism and software copyright infringement (Roy and Cordy, 2007). In most cases, in order to figure out the issues and help better software maintenance, we need to detect the codes that have been cloned (Baker, 1995). In the web applications development, the chances of cloning are bigger since there are too many open source software available on the Internet (Bailey and Burd, 2005). The applications are sometimes just a 'cosmetic' of another existing system. There are quite number of researches in software code cloning detection, but not so particularly in the area of web based applications. InTech Gang, Wu 2010-01-01 Book Section PeerReviewed Selamat, Ali and Wahid, Norfaradilla (2010) Code clone detection using string based tree matching technique. In: Semantic Web. InTech, Croatia, pp. 279-310. ISBN 978-953-7619-54-1 http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/7303 DOI: 10.5772/7303
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topic QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science
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Selamat, Ali
Wahid, Norfaradilla
Code clone detection using string based tree matching technique
description As the world of computers is rapidly evolving, there is a tremendous need of software development for different purposes. As we can see today, the complexity of the software being developed is different from one to another. Sometimes, developers take the easier way of implementation by copying some fragments of the existing programs and use the codes in their work. This kind of work is known as code cloning. Somehow the attitude of cloning can lead to the other issues of software development, for example plagiarism and software copyright infringement (Roy and Cordy, 2007). In most cases, in order to figure out the issues and help better software maintenance, we need to detect the codes that have been cloned (Baker, 1995). In the web applications development, the chances of cloning are bigger since there are too many open source software available on the Internet (Bailey and Burd, 2005). The applications are sometimes just a 'cosmetic' of another existing system. There are quite number of researches in software code cloning detection, but not so particularly in the area of web based applications.
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Selamat, Ali
Wahid, Norfaradilla
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Wahid, Norfaradilla
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title Code clone detection using string based tree matching technique
title_short Code clone detection using string based tree matching technique
title_full Code clone detection using string based tree matching technique
title_fullStr Code clone detection using string based tree matching technique
title_full_unstemmed Code clone detection using string based tree matching technique
title_sort code clone detection using string based tree matching technique
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