Getting the most from search-based refactoring

Proceedings of GECCO 2007: Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 1114-1120

  O'Keeffe, Mark Kent ^a   Cinneide, Mel O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Automated design improvement; Object oriented product metrics; Refactoring; Search based software engineering

Indexed keywords

COMBINATORIAL OPTIMIZATION; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; PROBLEM SOLVING; SIMULATED ANNEALING; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

AUTOMATED DESIGN IMPROVEMENT; OBJECT ORIENTED PRODUCT METRICS; REFACTORING; SEARCH BASED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

SOFTWARE TESTING;

EID: 34548066038     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1276958.1277177     Document Type: Conference Paper

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