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Investigating Developers’ Sentiments Associated with Software Cloning Practices

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Researchers through empirical observations have established that efficiency of software development tasks and their output relies upon software developer’s associated persuasions. Thus, empathizing software developer’s sentiments has now become one of the goals of an effective Software Engineering. This paper presents the developers’ sentiments associated with software cloning practices. SentiStrength, a frequently used Sentiment Analysis tool in software engineering is used to explore the sentiment polarity of the developers during programming tasks. 39 responses collected via online industrial survey were analyzed with SentiStrength tool. Sentiment Analysis performed on the developer responses mainly indicate the neutral polarity i.e. developers under study don’t think clones and cloning practices as good or bad practice, instead 71.79% expressed neutral sentiments. The collected opinions indicate neither the acceptance nor rejection of harmfulness or benefits of clones, rather depicted the neutral opinion of software developers towards clones.

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Acknowledgments

We present our sincere gratitude to UGC, Government of India for Senior Research Fellowship to the first author and also would like to thank Department of Computer Science, Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar for the infrastructural and scholastic support towards the ongoing research.

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  1. Department of Computer Science, Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar, India

    Sarveshwar Bharti & Hardeep Singh

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  1. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Maharshi Dayanand University, Rohtak, Haryana, India

    Ashish Kumar Luhach

  2. Namibia University of Science and Technology, Windhoek, Namibia

    Dharm Singh

  3. National Chung Cheng University, Minxiong Township, Chiayi County, Taiwan

    Pao-Ann Hsiung

  4. Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Universiti Malaysia Pahang, Pekan, Pahang, Malaysia

    Kamarul Bin Ghazali Hawari

  5. Saint Mary's University, Halifax, NS, Canada

    Pawan Lingras

  6. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Jaypee University of Information Technology, Kandaghat, India

    Pradeep Kumar Singh

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Bharti, S., Singh, H. (2019). Investigating Developers’ Sentiments Associated with Software Cloning Practices. In: Luhach, A., Singh, D., Hsiung, PA., Hawari, K., Lingras, P., Singh, P. (eds) Advanced Informatics for Computing Research. ICAICR 2018. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 955. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-3140-4_36

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