Qodana Clone Finder
Qodana Clone Finder compares a queried project against a number of reference projects and lists all duplicate functions ranked by their importance. The tool is designed to prevent problems rather than face the consequences down the line. By supporting CI integration, Clone Finder makes clone detection a routine check and reports borrowed code before it can lead to trouble.
Features
Clone Finder uses a block-based bag-of-tokens approach to clone detection that applies different similarity thresholds depending on the function size and token length, thus yielding diverse relevant results.
Clone types and importance score calculation
Clone Finder uses a logistic regression model to estimate the importance score of clones based on features like the number of identifiers, entropy of the identifiers, and average length of the identifiers, finding the following types of clones:
Identical code fragments with possible variations in whitespaces, layout, and comments
Syntactically equivalent fragments with some variations in identifiers, literals, types, whitespaces, layout and comments
Syntactically similar code with inserted, deleted, or updated statements.
You can see a sample report in Clone Finder Output.
Types of problems prevented
Penalties for the unlicensed use of third-party code
Excessive project maintenance costs due to an overgrown codebase
Increased security risks because fixing detected vulnerabilities across all instances of the copied code can be difficult
Try it now
Analyze a project locally
To start, pull the image from Docker Hub (only necessary to get the latest version):
and run the analysis locally:
where <queried-project-directory>, <reference-projects-directory>, and <output-directory> are full local paths to the directories that contain, respectively, the project source code, one or more projects to compare against, and the analysis results.
Check the results in your browser at http://localhost:8080.