Resolution of static clones in dynamic Web pages

Abstract

Abstract

Discovering refactoring opportunities in cascading style sheets

“…They examined 17 web applications and found out a duplication rate of 17% to 63%. Synytskyy et al [30] use an island grammar in order to define smaller portions of the HTML syntax for elements, such as forms and tables, that might be cloned across different pages. The grammar is used to extract those structures from web pages and examine whether their structure is repeated in other pages.…”

“…The extracted duplication information can be used to reengineer web applications, i.e., create dynamic pages from static ones [1,30], generate more-generalized dynamic web pages to minimize the duplication [4,27], or find similar functionalities across different web pages [5]. None of the aforementioned works investigated the existence of duplication in CSS code, or developed a technique specialized on the detection of duplication in CSS code.…”

Frontiers of software clone management

“…The disadvantage is that the technique finds many clones that are not syntactic units. Either in a preprocessing [83,22,33] or post-processing [37] step, clones that completely fall in syntactic blocks can be found if block delimiters are known. Preprocessing and postprocessing both require some syntactic information-gathered either lightweight by counting tokens opening and closing syntactic scopes or island grammars [75] or a full-fledged syntax analysis [33].…”

Legal concerns of Web site reverse engineering

“…Examples of analyses are detection of navigational patterns of a site [42], clustering of pages [33], tracking of the evolution of a site [40], matching contents in a multilingual site [58], clone detection [56], and various site and page metrics [62] [31].…”