Duplication Glossary

Browse 3 duplication terms defined in plain English, from the cultural dictionary of computing.

3 Duplication Terms

Code Clone: A duplicated or near-duplicated block of code that appears in multiple places, often because logic was copied and modified instead of extracted or reused...
DRY: Don't Repeat Yourself — a principle that every piece of knowledge should have a single, unambiguous, authoritative representation within a system. Violation is...
WET: A joking backronym usually expanded as 'write everything twice' or similar, used as the opposite of DRY to describe duplicated code and repeated logic. It...