Visualizing the evolution of code clones.

The knowledge of code clone evolution throughout the history of a software system is essential in comprehending and managing its clones properly and cost-effectively. However, investigating and observing facts in a huge set of text-based data provided by a clone genealogy extractor could be challenging without the support of a visualization tool. In this position paper, we present an idea of visualizing code clone evolution by exploiting the advantages of existing clone visualization techniques that would be both scalable and useful.