A hybrid approach for detection of Type-1 software clones

Abstract

Over the past few years, several software clone detection techniques have been developed. The software clones are the consequence of copied/pasted activity in software development which eventuates at different level of abstraction and may have different inception in a software system. This paper presents an efficient approach for the detection of type-1 software clones. The proposed detect type-1 software clones with high precision, recall, portability, and scalability. The type-1 clones generated by using mutation operator-based editing taxonomy.