Third-party library reuse has become common practice in contemporary software
development, as it includes several benefits for developers. Library dependencies are …

Developers neglect to update legacy software dependencies, resulting in buggy and
insecure software. One explanation for this neglect is the difficulty of constantly checking for …

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 …

Software developers share programming solutions in Q&A sites like Stack Overflow, Stack
Exchange, Android forum, and so on. The reuse of crowd-sourced code snippets can …

Motivation: A key premise of open source software is the ability to copy code to other open
source projects (white-box reuse). Such copying accelerates development of new projects …

Developers often reuse source files developed for another project. In order to update a
reused file to a newer version released by the original project, developers have to track …

The rise of user-contributed Open Source Software (OSS) ecosystems demonstrate their
prevalence in the software engineering discipline. Libraries work together by depending on …

Clone-and-own approach is a natural way of source code reuse for software developers. To
assess how known bugs and security vulnerabilities of a cloned component affect an …

Software developers make use of on crowdsourcing during development. Beyond learning
from others, developers use online portals such as Stack Overflow as a vehicle for …

Code reviews are popular in both industrial and open source projects. The benefits of code
reviews are widely recognized and include better code quality and lower likelihood of …