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Android applications (apps) integrate reusable and well-tested third-party libraries (TPLs) to enhance functionality and shorten development cycles. However, recent research reveals that TPLs have become the largest attack surface for…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-19 Bolin Zhou , Jingzheng Wu , Xiang Ling , Tianyue Luo , Jingkun Zhang

Modern software systems are increasingly dependent on third-party libraries. It is widely recognized that using mature and well-tested third-party libraries can improve developers' productivity, reduce time-to-market, and produce more…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2016-12-07 Mohamed Aymen Saied , Ali Ouni , Houari Sahraoui , Raula Gaikovina Kula , Katsuro Inoue , David Lo

Duplicated code has a negative impact on the quality of software systems and should be detected at least. In this paper, we discuss an approach that improves source code retrieval using the structural information about the programs. We…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2013-08-19 Yoshihisa Udagawa

Measuring and evaluating source code similarity is a fundamental software engineering activity that embraces a broad range of applications, including but not limited to code recommendation, duplicate code, plagiarism, malware, and smell…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-06-29 Morteza Zakeri-Nasrabadi , Saeed Parsa , Mohammad Ramezani , Chanchal Roy , Masoud Ekhtiarzadeh

Reusing code can produce duplicate or near-duplicate code clones in code repositories. Current code clone detection techniques, like Program Dependence Graphs, rely on code structure and their dependencies to detect clones. These techniques…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-06-26 Sandeep Kaur Kuttal , Akash Ghosh

With the rapid growth of software, using third-party libraries (TPLs) has become increasingly popular. The prosperity of the library usage has provided the software engineers with handful of methods to facilitate and boost the program…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-04-19 Can Yang , Zhengzi Xu , Hongxu Chen , Yang Liu , Xiaorui Gong , Baoxu Liu

Third-party libraries (TPLs) are extensively utilized by developers to expedite the software development process and incorporate external functionalities. Nevertheless, insecure TPL reuse can lead to significant security risks. Existing…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-09-13 Siyuan Li , Yongpan Wang , Chaopeng Dong , Shouguo Yang , Hong Li , Hao Sun , Zhe Lang , Zuxin Chen , Weijie Wang , Hongsong Zhu , Limin Sun

With the increasing disclosure of vulnerabilities in open-source software, software composition analysis (SCA) has been widely applied to reveal third-party libraries and the associated vulnerabilities in software projects. Beyond the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-01-23 Lyuye Zhang , Chengwei Liu , Zhengzi Xu , Sen Chen , Lingling Fan , Lida Zhao , Jiahui Wu , Yang Liu

Detecting code clones is crucial in various software engineering tasks. In particular, code clone detection can have significant uses in the context of analyzing and fixing bugs in large scale applications. However, prior works, such as…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-09-23 Hongfa Xue , Yongsheng Mei , Kailash Gogineni , Guru Venkataramani , Tian Lan

The integration of open-source third-party library dependencies in Java development introduces significant security risks when these libraries contain known vulnerabilities. Existing Software Composition Analysis (SCA) tools struggle to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Wang Lingxiang , Quanzhi Fu , Wenjia Song , Gelei Deng , Yi Liu , Dan Williams , Ying Zhang

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

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

Modern software heavily relies on the use of components. Those components are usually published in central repositories, and managed by build systems via dependencies. Due to issues around vulnerabilities, licenses and the propagation of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-10-11 Jens Dietrich , Shawn Rasheed , Alexander Jordan , Tim White

The rapid evolution of programming languages and software systems has necessitated the implementation of multilingual and scalable clone detection tools. However, it is difficult to achieve the above requirements at the same time. Most…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-12-06 Yuhang Ye , Yuekun Wang , Yinxing Xue , Yueming Wu , Yang Liu

Software vulnerabilities pose significant risks to computer systems, impacting our daily lives, productivity, and even our health. Identifying and addressing security vulnerabilities in a timely manner is crucial to prevent hacking and data…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-08-01 Jin Wang , Zishan Huang , Hui Xiao , Yinhao Xiao

In recent years, Large Language Models (LLMs) have been widely studied in the code translation field on the method, class, and even repository levels. However, most of these benchmarks are limited in terms of Third-Party Library (TPL)…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Pengyu Xue , Kunwu Zheng , Zhen Yang , Yifei Pei , Linhao Wu , Jiahui Dong , Xiapu Luo , Yan Xiao , Fei Liu , Yuxuan Zhang , Xiran Lyu , Xianhang Li , Xuanyu Zhu , Chengyi Wang

Code clones are pairs of code snippets that implement similar functionality. Clone detection is a fundamental branch of automatic source code comprehension, having many applications in refactoring recommendation, plagiarism detection, and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-06-20 Maksim Zubkov , Egor Spirin , Egor Bogomolov , Timofey Bryksin

Third-Party Library (TPL) detection, which identifies reused libraries in binary code, is critical for software security analysis. At its core, TPL detection depends on binary decomposition-the process of partitioning a monolithic binary…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Ang Jia , He Jiang , Zhilei Ren , Xiaochen Li , Zhipeng Yang , Yaxin Duan , Ming Fan , Ting Liu

Open-source libraries are widely used by software developers to speed up the development of products, however, they can introduce security vulnerabilities, leading to incidents like Log4Shell. With the expanding usage of open-source…

Online code clones are code fragments that are copied from software projects or online sources to Stack Overflow as examples. Due to an absence of a checking mechanism after the code has been copied to Stack Overflow, they can become toxic…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-04-03 Chaiyong Ragkhitwetsagul , Jens Krinke , Matheus Paixao , Giuseppe Bianco , Rocco Oliveto