Code duplication is considered as bad practice that complicates the maintenance and evolution of software. Detecting duplicated code is a difficult task because of the large amount of data to be checked and the fact that a priori it is unknown which code part has been duplicated. In this paper, we present a tool called DUPLOC that supports code duplication detection in a visual and exploratory or an automatic way.
Code duplication is considered as bad practice that complicates the maintenance and evolution of software. Detecting duplicated code is a difficult task because of the large amount of data to be checked and the fact that a priori it is unknown which code part has been duplicated. In this paper, we present a tool called DUPLOC that supports code duplication detection in a visual and exploratory or an automatic way.