Open AccessDuplicate Code Detection using Control Statements
Author(s) -
M. V. Sudhamani,
Lalitha Rangarajan
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
international journal of computer applications technology and research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2319-8656
DOI - 10.7753/ijcatr0410.1003
Subject(s) - computer science , code (set theory) , programming language , control (management) , artificial intelligence , set (abstract data type)
Code clone detection is an important area of research as reusability is a key factor in software evolution. Duplicate code degrades the design and structure of software and software qualities like readability, changeability, maintainability. Code clone increases the maintenance cost as incorrect changes in copied code may lead to more errors. In this paper we address structur\udal code similarity detection and propose new methods to\uddetect structural clones using structure of control statements. By structure we meanorder of control statements used in the source code. We have considered two orders of control structures: (i) Sequence of control statements as it appears (ii) Execution flow of control statements.\udKeywords: Control statements;Control structure;Execution flow;Similarity value;Structural similarity