A Tool to Detect Plagiarism in Java Source Code

The act of plagiarism occurs when an author uses other author’s intellectual ideas without his/her permission. In academics, scholars used to submit assignments now and then in the form of codes or text documents. In this work, the primary focus will be on program codes. In the current scenario, a major perspective is that the scholars may facsimile the codes from a source record without appropriately referencing the original writer or programmer. As there is a wide range of programming languages like C, C++, Java, Python, and many more, in this paper, we have dealt with Java code files. The objective of this work is to estimate the percentage of plagiarism in the given input programming code.