@conference {1003, title = {Evaluating the Harmfulness of Cloning: A Change Based Experiment}, booktitle = {Fourth International Workshop on Mining Software Repositories (MSR{\textquoteright}07:ICSE Workshops 2007)}, year = {2007}, pages = {18 - 18}, publisher = {IEEE}, organization = {IEEE}, address = {Minneapolis, MN, USA}, abstract = {Cloning is considered a harmful practice for software maintenance because it requires consistent changes of the entities that share a cloned fragment. However this claim has not been refuted or confirmed empirically. Therefore, we have developed a prototype tool, CloneTracker, in order to study the rate of change of applications containing clones. This paper describes CloneTracker and illustrates its preliminary application on a case study.}, keywords = {ccfinder, clone, clones, clonetracker, cloning, ctags, cvs, dnsjava, maintenance, scm, source code}, isbn = {0-7695-2950-X}, doi = {10.1109/MSR.2007.8}, author = {Lozano, Angela and Wermelinger, Michel and Nuseibeh, Bashar} }