JISC

In December 2000, South Bank University was commissioned to carry out a technical review of source code plagiarism detection software. The issue of source code plagiarism and its subsequent detection has been around for several years. South Bank decided to build on the existing experience and contacted Computer Science Departments across the country, asking them to fill in a questionnaire concerning this form of plagiarism detection. In addition to this, they carried out a technical review of two publicly available products.

• JPlag
• Moss

This report will be of particular interest to staff working in Computer Science departments, but it will also be useful for any academic staff that teach programming as part of their course.