Sherlock - Plagiarism Detection Software The Sherlock plagiarism detection tool has been in use at Warwick for several years. Sherlock can be used for intra-corpal collections of source-code or plain text. The tool supports most procedural and object-oriented languages but specific optimisations have been made for the Java programming language.
The Sherlock tool accepts a set of plain text files and source-code files and then is able to process these to identify similar sections of text or code. The results of this matching process can be visualised and examined to determine whether plagiarism has occurred.
The Sherlock system has also been integrated into the BOSS submission system and used to process programming coursework.