Pareto optimal search based refactoring at the design level

Proceedings of GECCO 2007: Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 1106-1113

  Harman, Mark ^a   Tratt, Laurence ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Pareto optimality; Refactoring; Search based; Software engineering

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC TEST PATTERN GENERATION; PARETO PRINCIPLE; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; SOFTWARE TESTING;

PARETO OPTIMALITY; REFACTORING; SEARCH BASED METHODS; SOFTWARE SYSTEMS;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION;

EID: 34548057284     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1276958.1277176     Document Type: Conference Paper

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