StoneDetector: Conventional and versatile code clone detection for Java

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2508.03435v1
• Date: Tue, 05 Aug 2025 13:23:13 GMT
• Title: StoneDetector: Conventional and versatile code clone detection for Java
• Authors: Thomas S. Heinze, André Schäfer, Wolfram Amme,
• Abstract summary: StoneDetector implements a conventional clone detection approach based upon the textual comparison of paths.<n>We show StoneDetector's performance and scalability in finding code clones in both, Java source and Bytecode.
• Score: 0.5480144998735542
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
• Abstract: Copy & paste is a widespread practice when developing software and, thus, duplicated and subsequently modified code occurs frequently in software projects. Since such code clones, i.e., identical or similar fragments of code, can bloat software projects and cause issues like bug or vulnerability propagation, their identification is of importance. In this paper, we present the StoneDetector platform and its underlying method for finding code clones in Java source and Bytecode. StoneDetector implements a conventional clone detection approach based upon the textual comparison of paths derived from the code's representation by dominator trees. In this way, the tool does not only find exact and syntactically similar near-miss code clones, but also code clones that are harder to detect due to their larger variety in the syntax. We demonstrate StoneDetector's versatility as a conventional clone detection platform and analyze its various available configuration parameters, including the usage of different string metrics, hashing algorithms, etc. In our exhaustive evaluation with other conventional clone detectors on several state-of-the-art benchmarks, we can show StoneDetector's performance and scalability in finding code clones in both, Java source and Bytecode.

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