An Expository Perception on Code Clone

Abstract

Software industry is the fastest growing diversion today. As the needs of software growing rapidly, maintenance of such type of software are getting more intricate, which is a foremost concern for the industry today. Numerous factors formulate the software maintenance cumbersome. Code clone is one of these factors. It is an exercise to replicate such code specks by copying which are common in different software. Although, it seems to be easy to use same code for different software but it complicates the task of maintenance of software and further changes required on clone part of the software. This study focus on the different types of code clone techniques and their related issue. Moreover, this study also different benefits and issues of code clone.