Using Squarified Treemaps for Structural Clones' Visualization

Abstract

Novel programming languages propose numerous abstraction methods to promote reuse of code fragments but this often leads to several duplicated code fragments so called clones. Clones recur in a particular fashion in software to constitute structural clones. This paper presents a squarified treemaps visual technique to effectively represent higher level structural clones to the programmers to facilitate further maintenance or reengineering activities based on these clones.