Copying and pasting program code fragments with minor changes is a common practice in software development. Software systems often have similar segments of code, called code clones. Due to many reasons, unintentional smells may also appear in the source ...
Most code clones are generated by copy-and paste programming. Copy-and-paste programming shortens a time required for implementation because pasted code is a template of the required functionality. However, it sometimes brings on new bugs to the source ...
As one of the most well-known programmer Q&A websites, Stack Overflow (i.e., SO) is serving tens of thousands of developers every day. Previous work has shown that many developers reuse the code snippets on SO when they find an answer (from SO) that ...
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