Clone Detection and Removal for Erlang/OTP within a Refactoring Environment

Li, Huiqing and Thompson, Simon (2009) Clone Detection and Removal for Erlang/OTP within a Refactoring Environment. In: ACM SIGPLAN Workshop on Partial Evaluation and Program Manipulation (PEPM'09).

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Abstract

A well-known bad code smell in refactoring and software maintenance is duplicated code, or code clones. A code clone is a code fragment that is identical or similar to another. Unjustified code clones increase code size, make maintenance and comprehension more difficult, and also indicate design problems such as lack of encapsulation or abstraction. This paper proposes a token and AST based hybrid approach to automatically detecting code clones in Erlang/OTP programs, underlying a collection of refactorings to support user-controlled automatic clone removal, and examines their application in substantial case studies. Both the clone detector and the refactorings are integrated within Wrangler, the refactoring tool developed at Kent for Erlang/OTP.

Item Type:	Conference or workshop item (Paper)
Subjects:	Q Science > QA Mathematics (inc Computing science) > QA 76 Software, computer programming,
Divisions:	Faculties > Science Technology and Medical Studies > School of Computing > Theoretical Computing Group
Depositing User:	Mark Wheadon
Date Deposited:	29 Mar 2010 12:12
Last Modified:	06 Sep 2011 04:54
Resource URI:	http://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/24061 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)

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