Online code clones are code fragments that are copied from software projects or online
sources to Stack Overflow as examples. Due to an absence of a checking mechanism after …

This paper explores the extent to which regular expressions (regexes) are portable across
programming languages. Many languages offer similar regex syntaxes, and it would be …

Deep Learning (DL) is achieving staggering performance on an increasing number of
applications in various areas. Meanwhile, its associated data-driven programming paradigm …

Secure development guidelines contribute to improving software security from the
development stage by making developers aware of the risks to be assumed, the necessary …

Software development is tremendously benefited from the Internet by having online code
corpora that enable instant sharing of source code and online developer's guides and …

Stack Overflow (SO) is one of the world's largest technical Q&A websites, in which many
posts contain code snippets. However, these code snippets may not comply with coding …

Abstract Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) are at the core, forming a vital
programming activity, by supporting code reuse for programmers and software developers …

Regular expressions (regexes) are a powerful mechanism for solving string-matching
problems and are supported by all modern programming languages. While regular …