Research on software clone detection
MA Xiao-chi · Jisuanji yingyong yanjiu · 2012
Software clone detection is a very important technology for software maintenance,software structure optimization,etc.The paper summarized the definition of software clone and its categories,divided and discussed the detection process for software clone.After that,it introduced two kinds of most actively research domain of software clone detection,that was code clone detection and model detection.Finally,the paper reviewed the state-of-art of current software clone detection research and identified some open research issues and pointed out possible future research directions in software clone detection area.