Historical perspective of code clone refactorings in evolving software

• Jaweria Kanwal ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Validation, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: jaweria.kanwal@numl.edu.pk

  Affiliations Software Engineering Dept., National University of Moderns Languages, Islamabad, Pakistan, Computer Science Dept., Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4473-5909

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• Onaiza Maqbool,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Computer Science Dept., Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan

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• Hamid Abdul Basit,

  Roles Software, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation College of Computer and Information Sciences, Prince Sultan University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1684-4262

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• Muddassar Azam Sindhu,

  Roles Formal analysis, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Computer Science Dept., Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3411-9224

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• Katsuro Inoue

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Resources, Software, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan

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