Classifying Obstructive and Nonobstructive Code Clones of Type I Using Simplified Classification Scheme: A Case Study

Table 1

Code clone classification attributes.

Attribute	Values	Mapping to classification by Kapser and Godfrey [19]
Severity	Obstructive/; not obstructive	N/A
Location/type of code	Product/; Test/; Target environment/; Simulation environment/; Platform specific code	Customization; Hardware variations (type of forking); Experimental variations (type of forking); Platform variations (type of forking)
Source	Coding guidelines/; Templates/; Unknown	General language or algorithmic idioms (templating)
Target action	Remove/; Leave as-is/; Refactor^1	N/A

The target action “Refactor” was recognized after the study was completed and therefore it is not part of the results presented in the paper.