Code Clone Detection using Generic Approach
Amita Goel · International Journal for Research in Applied Science and Engineering Technology · 2018
Of late, the process of development of software has become very tiresome and time consuming.In order to make the development fast and easy, developers tend to use a pre-existing code with or without altering few lines of the code.This reuse of code with or without some modification is termed as code clone.Cloning of code has become common problem in development of software which makes software maintenance really difficult and expensive.The presence of code clones in a source code leads to inconsistency.In order to stay ahead of these problems, it is very important to detect the presence of code clones in software.Code cloning reduces the time and effort of the software developer but it also decreases the quality of the software and increases maintainability.Keeping in mind the importance of code clone detection, various techniques has been proposed for detection of code clones such as detection based on textual approach, detection based on tokens, detection based on abstract syntax tree, detection based on program dependency graph and detection based on metrics.In this paper, I purpose detection based on generic approach.