Context-Adaptation Bugs in Micro-Clones

• Published in: Proceedings / Asia Pacific Software Engineering Conference pp. 239 - 248
• Main Authors: Mottakin, Sayeedi, Zaman, Maliha Bintay, Mondal, Manishankar, Shome, Atanu
• Format: Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: IEEE 04.12.2023
• Subjects: Cloning; Code Clones; Codes; Computer bugs; Computer languages; Context Adaptation Bugs; Encoding; History; Maintenance engineering; Micro-Clones; Software Maintenance

Whenever we copy a code fragment from one place of a code-base and paste it to another place, the pasted fragment might appear to be a buggy fragment if it is not properly adapted to its surrounding code. In such a situation, the bug that is contained in the pasted fragment because of not adapting i...