Will this clone be short-lived? Towards a better understanding of the characteristics of short-lived clones

Thongtanunam, P; Shang, W; Hassan, AE

Thongtanunam, P (reprint author), Univ Melbourne, Sch Comp & Informat Syst, Melbourne, Vic, Australia.

EMPIRICAL SOFTWARE ENGINEERING, 2019; 24 (2): 937

Abstract

Code clones are created when a developer duplicates a code fragment to reuse existing functionalities. Mitigating clones by refactoring them helps eas......

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