Research on Code Plagiarism Detection Based on Code Clone Detection Technologies

At present, assignment plagiarism is common in higher education at home and abroad especially in the coursework of computer majors. How to detect code plagiarism in programming course assignments effectively is a significant problem. The classic methods of code plagiarism detection mainly use the attribute or structure information to measure the similarity of source codes. In this dissertation, the definition and general process of clone plagiarism detection, different code clone detection technologies and the related tools are introduced.