A Hybrid Framework for Software Clone Detection

Software systems are becoming increasingly complex, and managing them is a critical topicin the software business today. Cloning is one of the fundamental factors that makes softwaremaintenance more difficult. Code cloning is a copy-paste approach for reproducing codeportions. Developers find it simple to copy and paste code throughout the early stages of aproject's development. This paper presents a hybrid framework for detecting code clones. Todetect code clones, it combines a token-based technique with metrics-based technique.Initially, metric based technique is applied to locate prospective clones. After identifyingprospective clones, token-based comparison is done to confirm that they are indeed clones.