Identifying Duplicate Code With Simian

By Thomas Johnson | April 13, 2009

I’ve recently discovered the tool Simian which you can use to identify blocks of duplicate code. I’ve been experimenting with it on C# code but Simian should work in pretty much any programming language.

Reduction of duplication within code is widely accepted as a worthwhile goal as it makes your code easier to debug, maintain and extend. A tool like Simian makes it possible to easily locate duplicated code within different files or even projects. Once you’ve found the duplicate code it is often quite easy to create a common method or class to remove the duplication.

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Topics: Coding Style, Productivity |

2 Responses to “Identifying Duplicate Code With Simian”

  1. Howard van Rooijen
    7:41 am on April 15th, 2009

    You should also take a look at Clone Detective for Visual Studio: http://www.codeplex.com/CloneDetectiveVS

  2. Thomas Johnson
    12:34 pm on April 15th, 2009

    Thanks for that Howard, Clone Detective definitely seems easier to use.

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