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Co-change candidates are the group of code fragments that require a change if any of these fragments experience a modification in a commit operation during software evolution. The cloned co-change candidates are a subset of the co-change…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-02-21 Md Nadim , Manishankar Mondal , Chanchal K. Roy , Kevin Schneider

Source code summarization involves creating brief descriptions of source code in natural language. These descriptions are a key component of software documentation such as JavaDocs. Automatic code summarization is a prized target of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-04-05 Sakib Haque , Zachary Eberhart , Aakash Bansal , Collin McMillan

Code cloning, a widespread practice in software development, involves replicating code fragments to save time but often at the expense of software maintainability and quality. In this paper, we address the specific challenge of detecting…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-02-27 Lida Zhao , Shihan Dou , Yutao Hu , Yueming Wu , Jiahui Wu , Chengwei Liu , Lyuye Zhang , Yi Liu , Jun Sun , Xuanjing Huang , Yang Liu

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

In recent years, code security has become increasingly important, especially with the rise of interconnected technologies. Detecting vulnerabilities early in the software development process has demonstrated numerous benefits. Consequently,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-07-22 José Gonçalves , Tiago Dias , Eva Maia , Isabel Praça

We consider the well-known and important tasks of clone detection and information retrieval for source code. The most standard setup is to search clones inside the same language code snippets. But it is also useful to find code snippets…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-16 Anton Tikhonov , Nikita Sorokin , Dmitry Abulkhanov , Irina Piontkovskaya , Sergey Nikolenko , Valentin Malykh

Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in various software engineering tasks, such as code generation and debugging, because of their ability to translate between programming languages and natural languages.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Wenqing Zhu , Norihiro Yoshida , Eunjong Choi , Yutaka Matsubara , Hiroaki Takada

The article presents a system for testing the independence of solutions to algorithmic problems sent by students as part of the student programming competition. First, the context was discussed, as well as the need to organize programming…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-12-18 Zenon Gniazdowski , Maciej Boniecki

This paper contributes in developing source code plagiarism detection that is more aligned with human perspective. Three evaluation mechanisms that directly relate human perspective with evaluated approaches are proposed: think-aloud,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-09-25 Oscar Karnalim , Lisan Sulistiani

There are a great many clone detection tools proposed in the literature. In this paper, we investigate the state of clone detection tool evaluation. We begin by surveying the clone detection benchmarks, and performing a multi-faceted…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-06-30 Jeffrey Svajlenko , Chanchal K. Roy

Code clone detection plays a critical role in software maintenance and vulnerability analysis. Substantial methods have been proposed to detect code clones. However, they struggle to extract high-level program semantics directly from a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Changguo Jia , Yi Zhan , Tianqi Zhao , Hengzhi Ye , Minghui Zhou

Context: Software systems are in continuous evolution through source code changes to fixing bugs, adding new functionalities and improving the internal architecture. All these practices are recorded in the version history, which can be…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-01-17 Leandro Ungari Cayres , Bruno Santos de Lima , Rogério Eduardo Garcia

Given the availability of large source-code repositories, there has been a large number of applications for large-scale clone detection. Unfortunately, despite a decade of active research, there is a marked lack in clone detectors that…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-05-30 Vaibhav Saini , Hitesh Sajnani , Jaewoo Kim , Cristina Lopes

Plagiarism is a commonly encountered problem in the academia. While there are several tools and techniques to efficiently determine plagiarism in text, the same cannot be said about source code plagiarism. To make the existing systems more…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-02-08 Vasishtha Sriram Jayapati , Ajay Venkitaraman

With little to no parallel data available for programming languages, unsupervised methods are well-suited to source code translation. However, the majority of unsupervised machine translation approaches rely on back-translation, a method…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-02-17 Baptiste Roziere , Jie M. Zhang , Francois Charton , Mark Harman , Gabriel Synnaeve , Guillaume Lample

Source code plagiarism is a common occurrence in undergraduate computer science education. In order to identify such cases, many source code plagiarism detection tools have been proposed. A source code plagiarism detection tool evaluates…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-04-23 Hayden Cheers , Yuqing Lin , Shamus P. Smith

This paper presents a new approach for code similarity on High Level programs. Our technique is based on Fast Dynamic Time Warping, that builds a warp path or points relation with local restrictions. The source code is represented into Time…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2007-10-31 M. Miron Bernal , H. Coyote Estrada , J. Figueroa Nazuno

Code cloning plays a very important role in open-source software engineering. The presence of clones within a project may indicate a need for refactoring, and clones between projects are even more interesting, since code migration takes…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-08-16 Yaroslav Golubev , Timofey Bryksin

Contemporary software documentation is as complicated as the software itself. During its lifecycle, the documentation accumulates a lot of near duplicate fragments, i.e. chunks of text that were copied from a single source and were later…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-10-10 D. V. Luciv , D. V. Koznov , G. A. Chernishev , A. N. Terekhov

Source code search plays an important role in software development, e.g. for exploratory development or opportunistic reuse of existing code from a code base. Often, exploration of different implementations with the same functionality is…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Muhammad Hammad , Önder Babur , Hamid Abdul Basit , Mark van den Brand