Plag

Description

A CLI Application to detect plagiarism in Source Code Files.

Features

• Compare source code files for plagiarism.
• Extract code features from a file.
• Language support for C++ and Java.
• Cross-platform compatibilty.
• User customizability.

Technologies / Libraries Used

• Python
• Numpy
• Pandas
• Typer
• NLTK
• CppHeaderParser
• PlyJ

Prerequisites

• Python (version >= 3.0)(Recommended = 3.6)

Installation

• Clone this repository.
• Change the current directory to the repository

  cd <path_to_repository>
  

• Install the python package

  python setup.py install
  

Usage

• Check the version of Plag.

  plag --version
  

• Comparing Source Code Files for similarity.

  plag compare ../data/file1.cpp ../data --filetype cpp 
  

• Extracting features of a Source Code file.

  plag extract ../data/file1.cpp
  

• Show current preferences

  plag preference show
  

• Set a preference.

  plag preference set filetype py
  

• Reset all preferences

  plag preference reset
  

NOTE : The preferences currently supported are

• filetype
• threshold
• result_path
• comment_weight

Common Issues

• In case of permission errors, try running the application as administrator.