A mutation analysis based benchmarking framework for clone detectors

In recent years, an abundant number of clone detectors have been proposed in literature. However, most of the tool papers have lacked a solid performance evaluation of the subject tools. This is due both to the lack of an available and reliable benchmark, and the manual efforts required to hand check a large number of candidate clones. In this tool demonstration paper we show how a mutation analysis based benchmarking framework can be used by developers and researchers to evaluate clone detection tools at a fine granularity with minimal effort.