Got a couple of quick answers to my questions from two of the Conqat guys. Also received a copy of the (not-yet-publicly-available) CloneClipse tool that can be used to visualize duplicates found in code. Haven’t had a chance to try it out yet, as I’ve been delving a bit deeper into Conqat’s design and internals.

The architecture seems extremely flexible, but this does come at the cost of everything being a bit tedious to set up: you’re basically defining processors, and then piping and filtering them - using XML. If I’ve understood correctly, Conqat provides the concept of blocks to configure things on a higher level.

In other news, I found a colleague whose willing to work as instructor for my thesis. The number of instructors for a thesis done for a company is bewildering: you need two instructors from the university (namely, a professor and then somebody with a degree acting as an assistant or similar) and one from the employer.