Role of Functional Clones in Software Development

The software organizations have a great demand on producing quality software. The methodology used to produce quality software varies depending on the organization’s time, cost and resource constraints. In most cases, as the need for quality arises cost and time also increases. An efficient technique helps to cope up with these constraints and deliver a quality software system. In this paper, a cost-effective method is proposed to produce quality software. This proposed method uses the concept of code clones to effectively develop quality software. Most of the surveys regarding code clones project its negative aspects, but here the positive side of it is focused. The results show that this method uses limited resources and also user-friendly.