Refactoring Support

If your code base has been continuously developed over time, it is likely that there is a great deal of replicated code due to branching, versioning, or developers using copy-paste techniques to simplify development. It’s also likely that the code base size has exploded over time. It’s typical for this type of situation to trigger a refactoring effort. The key goals of the refactoring effort would be to reduce the size of the code base, as well as ensure reuse by identifying similar code segments, and extracting them into reusable components, modules, or libraries.

If you’ve ever tried to refactor a large, replicated code base, you know that a manual approach to finding what to refactor isn’t fast or effective. And unfortunately, there aren’t many tools that can help with the task.

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Jumpstart your refactoring - find all similar code segments

Pattern Miner can help jumpstart your refactoring effort in a way that wasn’t possible before. You can use Pattern Miner to quickly and accurately identify all similar code patterns, and then sort the results by number of patterns to identify functions that are candidates.