Review on Software Clone Management
Gurpreet Singh, Sumit kumar Kushwaha, Saurabh kumawat, Asif Ali, Midde Sai Kumar Reddy · Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research · 2021
Copy and pasting of existing code or a fragment of code from one software to another instead of writing from scratch is known as software cloning or code cloning. Software developers find it time consuming and easy but with shortcuts their comes hurdles in long- run. Things becomes more complex when the development reaches advance stages and as a result it gets difficult to maintain the software. Maintenance which is among the most expensive part in software development, studies have been done in the past and recent which speaks of the pros and cons of cloning, this paper will be summarizing different aspects of code cloning.