%0 Journal Article
%T Method-Level Code Clone Modification using Refactoring Techniques for Clone Maintenance
%A E. Kodhai
%A S. Kanmani
%J Advanced Computing : an International Journal
%D 2013
%I Academy & Industry Research Collaboration Center (AIRCC)
%X Researchers focused on activities such as clone maintenance to assisttheprogrammers.Refactoring is awell-known process to improve the maintainability ofthesoftware.Program refactoring is a technique toimprove readability, structure, performance, abstraction, maintainability, or other characteristics bytransforming a program.This paper contributes to a more unifiedapproachforthe phases of clonemaintenance with a focus on clonemodification.Thisapproachuses the refactoring technique for clonemodification.Todetect the clones ¡®CloneManager¡¯ tool has been used.Thisapproachisimplementedas anenhancement to the existing tool CloneManager.Theenhancedtool is tested with the open source projectsand the results are compared with theperformance ofother three existing tools.
%K Code clone
%K R efactoring
%K Software mai ntenance
%U http://airccse.org/journal/acij/papers/4213acij02.pdf