SHINOBI: A Tool for Automatic Code Clone Detection in the IDE

Author

Kawaguchi, Shinji ; Yamashina, T. ; Uwano, Hidetake ; Fushida, Kyhohei ; Kamei, Yasutaka ; Nagura, Masataka ; Iida, Hajimu

Author_Institution

Grad. Sch. of Inf. Sci., Nara Inst. of Sci. & Technol., Ikoma, Japan

fYear

2009

fDate

13-16 Oct. 2009

Firstpage

313

Lastpage

314

Abstract

Recent research has acknowledged that code clones decrease the maintainability and reliability of software programs, thus it is being regarded as one of the major factors to increase development/maintenance cost. We introduce SHINOBI, a novel code clone detection/modification tool that is designed to aid in recognizing and highlighting code clones during software maintenance tasks. SHINOBI is implemented as an add-in of Microsoft Visual Studio that automatically reports clones of modified snippets in real time.

Keywords

software maintenance; software reliability; software tools; Microsoft Visual Studio; SHINOBI; automatic code clone detection; software program maintainability; software program reliability; Cloning; Event detection; Information science; Laboratories; Large-scale systems; Maintenance engineering; Programming profession; Reliability engineering; Reverse engineering; Software maintenance; code clone; software development environment; software tool;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Reverse Engineering, 2009. WCRE '09. 16th Working Conference on

Conference_Location

Lille

ISSN

1095-1350

Print_ISBN

978-0-7695-3867-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WCRE.2009.36

Filename

5328752