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Enhancing generic pipeline model for code clone detection using divide and conquer approach
Joint Authors
sulayman, Shahidah
Ali, al-Fahim Mubarak
Muhammad, Sharifah Mashita Sayyid
Source
The International Arab Journal of Information Technology
Issue
Vol. 12, Issue 5 (30 Sep. 2015)8 p.
Publisher
Publication Date
2015-09-30
Country of Publication
Jordan
No. of Pages
8
Main Subjects
Information Technology and Computer Science
Abstract EN
Code clone is known as identical copies of the same instances or fragments of source codes in software.
Current code clone research focuses on the detection and analysis of code clones in order to help software developers identify code clones in source codes and reuse the source codes in order to decrease the maintenance cost.
Many approaches such as textual based comparison approach, token based comparison and tree based comparison approach have been used to detect code clones.
As software grows and becomes a legacy system, the complexity of these approaches in detecting code clones increases.
Thus, this scenario makes it more difficult to detect code clones.
Generic pipeline model is the most recent code clone detection that comprises five processes which are parsing process, pre-processing process, pooling process, comparing processes and filtering process to detect code clone.
This research highlights the enhancement of the generic pipeline model using divide and conquer approach that involves concatenation process.
The aim of this approach is to produce a better input for the generic pipeline model by processing smaller part of source code files before focusing on the large chunk of source codes in a single pipeline.
We implement and apply the proposed approach with the support of a tool called Java Code Clone Detector.
The result obtained shows an improvement in the rate of code clone detection and overall runtime performance as compared to the existing generic pipeline model.
American Psychological Association (APA)
Ali, al-Fahim Mubarak& Muhammad, Sharifah Mashita Sayyid& sulayman, Shahidah. 2015. Enhancing generic pipeline model for code clone detection using divide and conquer approach. The International Arab Journal of Information Technology،Vol. 12, no. 5.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-430899
Modern Language Association (MLA)
Ali, al-Fahim Mubarak…[et al.]. Enhancing generic pipeline model for code clone detection using divide and conquer approach. The International Arab Journal of Information Technology Vol. 12, no. 5 (Sep. 2015).
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-430899
American Medical Association (AMA)
Ali, al-Fahim Mubarak& Muhammad, Sharifah Mashita Sayyid& sulayman, Shahidah. Enhancing generic pipeline model for code clone detection using divide and conquer approach. The International Arab Journal of Information Technology. 2015. Vol. 12, no. 5.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-430899
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Includes bibliographical references
Record ID
BIM-430899