Title
A hybrid approach (syntactic and textual) to clone detection
Abstract
Code clone detection has been so far tackled with several approaches (mainly textual, syntactic, and semantic), each performing best w.r.t. specific metrics and against consolidated but specific benchmarks. Hybrid approaches have been recently proposed as well. This paper proposes a novel hybrid (syntactic, textual) approach using the abstract syntax tree to identify clone candidates and textual methods to discard false positives. The novelty of the approach is in the combination of two well-grounded techniques, in a way that has not been explored yet. The paper shows the result of empirical evaluation methods and hints of a prototype implementation. Initial experimental results show that the approach is effective and can find clones that were not detected by state of the art approaches.
Year
DOI
Venue
2010
10.1145/1808901.1808914
IWSC
Keywords
DocType
Citations 
best w,abstract syntax tree,hybrid approach,art approach,specific metrics,clone candidate,textual method,novel hybrid,specific benchmarks,code clone detection,false positive
Conference
3
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.41
3
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Marco Funaro191.55
Daniele Braga284447.17
Alessandro Campi335730.08
Carlo Ghezzi41124.99