In large software development projects, when a programmer is assigned a bug to fix, she
typically spends a lot of time searching (in an ad-hoc manner) for instances from the past …

Clone detectors find similar code fragments (ie, instances of code clones) and report large
numbers of them for industrial systems. To maintain or manage code clones, developers …

Since annotations were added to the Java language, many frameworks have moved to
using annotated Plain Old Java Objects (POJOs) in their newest releases. Legacy …

Developers perform small-scale reuse tasks to save time and to increase the quality of their
code, but due to their small scale, the costs of such tasks can quickly outweigh their benefits …

Programmers copy and paste code for many reasons. Regardless of the specific reasons,
similar code fragments (clones) are introduced into software systems. Like other software …

Software debugging recommendation technique embodi ments are presented that generally
entails creating a database of characterized software bug descriptions and providing …

Developers often need to modify pasted code when programming with copy-and-paste
practice. Some modifications on pasted code could involve lots of editing efforts, and any …

Regression faults, which make working code stop functioning, are often introduced when
developers make changes to the software. Many regression fault localization techniques …

Previous research has shown that refactoring code clones as soon as they are formed or
discovered is not always feasible or worthwhile to perform, since some clones never change …

We describe a code reuse tool for use in the Looking Glass IDE, the successor to Storytelling
Alice [17], which enables middle school students with little to no programming experience to …