"Cloning Considered Harmful" Considered Harmful

By Cory J. Kapser, Michael W. Godfrey. Working Conference on Reverse Engineering, 2006

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The road ahead for Mining Software Repositories (2008, background): “Kapser and Godfrey examine several large open source systems and show that cloning is often used as a principled engineering tool [34].”
Do code clones matter? (2009, background): “In fact, some researchers even started to doubt the harmfulness of cloning at all [17].”
An Empirical Study of Function Clones in Open Source Software (2008, background): “They provide a detailed categorization of code clones in the form of a taxonomy [15], propose a new analysis framework [14] and give an in-depth study on the harmfulness / usefulness of cloning [13].”
A Practical Model for Measuring Maintainability (2007, background): “Though the occurrence of a small amount of duplication is natural, excessive amounts of duplication are detrimental to its main-tainability, in particular to the characteristics of analysability and changeability [18].”
Learning to rank code examples for code search engines (2017, background): “Code reuse also contributes to the quality of products in software development [30].”
NICAD: Accurate Detection of Near-Miss Intentional Clones Using Flexible Pretty-Printing and Code Normalization (2008, background): “it is beneficial in certain situations [21], one of the major difficulties with such duplicated fragments is that if a bug is detected in a code fragment, all the fragments similar to it should be investigated to check for same bug [25].”