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@inproceedings{Pyl2020IWSC,
author = {Mitchel Pyl and Brent van Bladel and Serge Demeyer},
booktitle = {Proceedings {IWSC} 2020 (2020 IEEE 14th International
Workshop on Software Clones)},
publisher = {IEEE},
title = {An Empirical Study on Accidental Cross-Project Code
Clones},
year = {2020},
abstract = {Software clones are considered a code smell in
software development. While most clones occur due to
developers copy - paste behaviour, some of them arise
accidentally as a symptom of coding idioms. If such
accidental clones occur across projects, then they
may indicate a lack of abstraction in the underlying
programming language or libraries. In this research,
we study accidental cross-project clones from the
perspective of missing abstraction. We discuss the
six cases of frequent cross-project clones, three of
them symptoms of missing language features (which
have been resolved with the release of Java 7 and
Java 12), and two of them symptoms of missing library
features (which have not yet been addressed).},
annote = {workshoppaper},
doi = {10.1109/IWSC50091.2020.9047641},
}