A Novel Approach to Detect Code Clone
Dr. R. V. Patil · International Journal for Research in Applied Science and Engineering Technology · 2020
In software development process, coping of existing code fragment and pasting them with or without modification may be a frequent process.Clone means copy of an ingenious form or duplicate.Software clone detection is vital to scale back the software maintenance cost and to acknowledge the software during a better way.There are many software code clone detection techniques like text based, token-based, Abstract Syntax tree based etc. and they are used to spot and finding the existence of clones in software system.One of the approach is token based comparisons of two programs to detect code clone.Our technique uses the token-based approach using hashing algorithm by analysis of two source codes in the process of finding clones among them and the percentage of cloning is reported as result.