I believe this pattern is referred to as accidental-duplication. Some existing discussions on this: https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/300

I believe this pattern is referred to as accidental-duplication. Some existing discussions on this: https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/300043/illusory-code-duplication/300090 https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/3000... http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1313447 http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1313447