Find below the research I did at North Carolina State University this summer. I worked under Dr. Emerson Murphy Hill at a lab called Developer Liberation Front.
p.s. folks at this lab really do try to liberate programmers through innovative tools!
A developer might choose against sharing code on a developer help forum like StackOverflow because the code snippet may contain a proprietary algorithm or her original idea. I built and tested a code anonymization technique called ACAnon, that finds an open-source code snippet similar to the original one. The developer can then share the similar code on the help forums.
