A comparative study on the bug-proneness of different types of code clones

• Published in: ICSME : 2015 IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution : September 29, 2015-October 1, 2015 pp. 91 - 100
• Main Authors: Mondal, Manishankar, Roy, Chanchal K., Schneider, Kevin A.
• Format: Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: IEEE 01.09.2015
• Subjects: Cloning; Computer bugs; Java; Maintenance engineering; Software systems; Terminology

Code clones are defined to be the exactly or nearly similar code fragments in a software system's code-base. The existing clone related studies reveal that code clones are likely to introduce bugs and inconsistencies in the code-base. However, although there are different types of clones, it is...