Wild code Software Engineering
noun phrase
Definition: Real-world software code obtained from industry or open-source projects rather than artificially constructed, automatically generated, or classroom examples [NIST].
Example in context: “We randomly selected around 2000 Windows PE binaries from ASSEMBLAGE that better reflect ‘wild’ code…” [Liu et al. 2024]
Synonyms: code in the wild; real-world code
Related terms: wild code sampling; open-source code; vulnerability benchmarks; SARD dataset