%0 Conference Paper %B Fourth International Workshop on Mining Software Repositories (MSR'07:ICSE Workshops 2007) %D 2007 %T Evaluating the Harmfulness of Cloning: A Change Based Experiment %A Lozano, Angela %A Wermelinger, Michel %A Nuseibeh, Bashar %K ccfinder %K clone %K clones %K clonetracker %K cloning %K ctags %K cvs %K dnsjava %K maintenance %K scm %K source code %X 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. %B Fourth International Workshop on Mining Software Repositories (MSR'07:ICSE Workshops 2007) %I IEEE %C Minneapolis, MN, USA %P 18 - 18 %@ 0-7695-2950-X %R 10.1109/MSR.2007.8