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Since its launch in November 2022, ChatGPT has gained popularity among users, especially programmers who use it as a tool to solve development problems. However, while offering a practical solution to programming problems, ChatGPT should be…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Phuong T. Nguyen , Juri Di Rocco , Claudio Di Sipio , Riccardo Rubei , Davide Di Ruscio , Massimiliano Di Penta

Code generation aims to automatically generate code snippets of specific programming language according to natural language descriptions. The continuous advancements in deep learning, particularly pre-trained models, have empowered the code…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-01-24 Zezhou Yang , Sirong Chen , Cuiyun Gao , Zhenhao Li , Xing Hu , Kui Liu , Xin Xia

Type-4 clones refer to a pair of code snippets with similar semantics but written in different syntax, which challenges the existing code clone detection techniques. Previous studies, however, highly rely on syntactic structures and textual…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-06-29 Zhipeng Xue , Zhijie Jiang , Chenlin Huang , Rulin Xu , Xiangbing Huang , Liumin Hu

Similarity, or clone, detection has important applications in copyright violation, software theft, code search, and the detection of malicious components. There is now a good number of open source and proprietary clone detectors for…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2023-02-21 Farima Farmahinifarahani , Cristina V. Lopes

Code review is widely known as one of the best practices for software quality assurance in software development. In a typical code review process, reviewers check the code committed by developers to ensure the quality of the code, during…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-04-05 Beiqi Zhang , Liming Fu , Peng Liang , Jiaxin Yu , Chong Wang

When working in large and complex codebases, developers face challenges using \textit{Find Usages} to understand how to reuse classes and methods. To better understand these challenges, we conducted a small exploratory study with 4…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-09-03 Emad Aghayi , Aaron Massey , Thomas LaToza

This paper presents a new, parallel implementation of clustering and demonstrates its utility in greatly speeding up the process of identifying homologous proteins. Clustering is a technique to reduce the number of comparison needed to find…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-08-29 Stuart Byma , Akash Dhasade , Adrian Altenhoff , Christophe Dessimoz , James R. Larus

Binary Code Similarity Detection (BCSD) is not only essential for security tasks such as vulnerability identification but also for code copying detection, yet it remains challenging due to binary stripping and diverse compilation…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-24 Li Zhou , Marc Dacier , Charalambos Konstantinou

Successful cross-language clone detection could enable researchers and developers to create robust language migration tools, facilitate learning additional programming languages once one is mastered, and promote reuse of code snippets over…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-02-11 George Mathew , Chris Parnin , Kathryn T Stolee

Code cloning is frequently observed in software development, often leading to a variety of maintenance and security issues. While substantial research has been conducted on code cloning in traditional software, to the best of my knowledge,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Huashan Chen , Zisheng Huang , Yifan Xu , Wenjie Huang , Jinfu Chen , Haotang Li , Kebin Peng , Feng Liu , Sen He

The advent of large language models (LLMs) has significantly advanced artificial intelligence (AI) in software engineering (SE), with source code embeddings playing a crucial role in tasks such as source code clone detection and source code…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Zixiang Xian , Chenhui Cui , Rubing Huang , Chunrong Fang , Zhenyu Chen

The issue of clone code has persisted in software engineering, primarily because developers often copy and paste code segments. This common practice has elevated the importance of clone code detection, garnering attention from both software…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-05-12 QiHong Chen , Lianghao Jiang , Iftekhar Ahmed

When many clones are detected in software programs, not all clones are equally important to developers. To help developers refactor code and improve software quality, various tools were built to recommend clone-removal refactorings based on…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-07-31 Ruru Yue , Zhe Gao , Na Meng , Yingfei Xiong , Xiaoyin Wang , J. David Morgenthaler

Program code contains functions, variables, and data structures that are represented by names. To promote human understanding, these names should describe the role and use of the code elements they represent. But the names given by…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-09-08 Moshe Munk , Dror G. Feitelson

Developers often depend on code search engines to obtain solutions for their programming tasks. However, finding an expected solution containing code examples along with their explanations is challenging due to several issues. There is a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-08-06 Rodrigo F. Silva , M. Masudur Rahman , Carlos Eduardo Dantas , Chanchal Roy , Foutse Khomh , Marcelo A. Maia

Existing code similarity metrics, such as BLEU, CodeBLEU, and TSED, largely rely on surface-level string overlap or abstract syntax tree structures, and often fail to capture deeper semantic relationships between programs.We propose CSSG…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Yiyang Lu , Jingwen Xu , Changze Lv , Zisu Huang , Zhengkang Guo , Zhengyuan Wang , Muzhao Tian , Xuanjing Huang , Xiaoqing Zheng

To solve time inefficiency issue, only potential pairs are compared in string-matching-based source code plagiarism detection; wherein potentiality is defined through a fast-yet-order-insensitive similarity measurement (adapted from…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-10-30 Oscar Karnalim , Lisan Sulistiani

Understanding the functional (dis)-similarity of source code is significant for code modeling tasks such as software vulnerability and code clone detection. We present DISCO(DIS-similarity of COde), a novel self-supervised model focusing on…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Yangruibo Ding , Luca Buratti , Saurabh Pujar , Alessandro Morari , Baishakhi Ray , Saikat Chakraborty

Despite the unarguable importance of Stack Overflow (SO) for the daily work of many software developers and despite existing knowledge about the impact of code duplication on software maintainability, the prevalence and implications of code…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-02-05 Sebastian Baltes , Christoph Treude

Since IoT systems provide services over the Internet, they must continue to operate safely even if malicious users attack them. Since the computational resources of edge devices connected to the IoT are limited, lightweight platforms and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Kentaro Ohno , Norihiro Yoshida , Wenqing Zhu , Hiroaki Takada