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Clone Detector Use Questions: A List of Desirable Empirical Studies Dean, Thomas R. Di Penta, Massamiliano Kontogiannis, Kostas Walenstein, Andrew Code clone clone detector code search reuse code scavenging empirical study Code "clones" are similar segments of code that are frequently introduced by "scavenging" existing code, that is, reusing code by copying it and adapting it for a new use. In order to scavenge the code, the developer must be aware of it already, or must find it. Little is known about how tools - particularly search tools - impact the clone construction process, nor how developers use them for this purpose. This paper lists five outstanding research questions in this area and proposes sketches of designs for five empirical studies that might be conducted to help shed light on those questions. Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik Thomas R. Dean and Massamiliano Di Penta and Kostas Kontogiannis and Andrew Walenstein 2007 Is Part Of Dagstuhl Seminar Proceedings, Volume 6301, Duplication, Redundancy, and Similarity in Software (2007) InProceedings Text doc-type:ResearchArticle publishedVersion application/pdf doi:10.4230/DagSemProc.06301.5 urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-9695 https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/DagSemProc.06301.5 eng https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode