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-# mps-qa
-Repository Containing Quality Assurance Tooling for Jetbrains' MPS
+# MPS-QA
+Repository Containing Quality Assurance Tooling for Jetbrains' MPS.
 
 We have the following components:
-* clone detection on models
+* clone detection on models (ready to use)
+* automated synthesis of models given a set of DSLs (early development phase)
+
+## Clones Detection
+#### Motivation
+When models (both on language development and use sides) are developed over several years, people tend to copy/paste and adapt existing code. This leads to redundancies and hard to maintain code. Furthermore, there are situations when copy-paste is the only way to reuse some code, and this can reveal lack of adequate abstractions which would enable reuse.
+
+#### Using the Clones Detection
+There are two possibilities to use the clones detection:
+* you can either download the released plugins from the release page 
+** please make sure to download plugins which match your MPS version!
+* you can build the clones detection MPS plugins from sources
+
+**Building the mps.qa.clones plugin**
+1. rename "gradle.properties.example" in "gradle.properties" 
+2. set the required macros (mpsqa.home and mpsHomeDir)
+3. open a terminal and call `gradlew.bat`