SeClone - A Hybrid Approach to Internet-Scale Real-Time Code Clone Search

Real-time code clone search is an emerging family of clone detection research that aims at finding clone pairs matching an input code fragment in fractions of a second. For these techniques to meet actual real world requirements, they have to be scalable and provide a short response time. Our research presents a hybrid clone search approach using source code pattern indexing, information retrieval clustering, and Semantic Web reasoning to respectively achieve short response time, handle false positives, and support automated grouping/querying.