Search-based refactoring: An empirical study

Journal of Software Maintenance and Evolution

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 345-364

  O'Keeffe, Mark ^a   Cinnéide, Mel Ó ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Automated design improvement; Refactoring tools; Search based software engineering

Indexed keywords

ANNEALING; COMBINATORIAL MATHEMATICS; COMBINATORIAL OPTIMIZATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; DESIGN; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

AUTOMATED DESIGN IMPROVEMENT; COMBINATORIAL OPTIMIZATION PROBLEMS; EMPIRICAL COMPARISONS; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; INPUT PROGRAMS; OBJECT-ORIENTED; QUALITY MODELS; REFACTORING; REFACTORING TOOLS; SEARCH TECHNIQUES; SEARCH-BASED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; SOFTWARE REFACTORING;

SIMULATED ANNEALING;

EID: 56749185283     PISSN: 1532060X     EISSN: 15320618     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/smr.378     Document Type: Article

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