Definition: Copycatting is a term used in computer science and software engineering to describe a process where two or more programs execute the same code with different names. This can occur through multiple processes running on the same machine at the same time, typically as part of a shared resource such as a file system or database. The goal of copycatting is to minimize the overhead associated with separate copies of the codebase and to ensure that the resulting program behaves like the original. The process of copying different pieces of