IDE-based real-time focused search for near-miss clones
Minhaz F. Zibran, Chanchal Kumar Roy · 2012
Code clone is a well-known code smell that needs to be detected and managed during the software development process. However, the existing clone detectors have one or more of the three shortcomings: (a) limitation in detecting Type-3 clones, (b) they come as stand-alone tools separate from IDE and thus cannot support clone-aware development, (c) they overwhelm the developer with all clones from the entire code-base, instead of a focused search for clones of a selected code segment of the developer's interest.