On the use of genetic programming for automated refactoring and the introduction of design patterns

Proceedings of the 12th Annual Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, GECCO '10

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 1341-1348

  Jensen, Adam C ^a   Cheng, Betty H C ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Design patterns; Evolutionary computation; Intelligent search; Object oriented design; Refactoring; Search based software engineering; Software metrics

Indexed keywords

DESIGN PATTERNS; EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTATIONS; INTELLIGENT SEARCH; OBJECT-ORIENTED DESIGN; REFACTORINGS; SEARCH-BASED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; SOFTWARE METRICS;

CALCULATIONS; DESIGN; GENETIC PROGRAMMING; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

SOFTWARE DESIGN;

EID: 77955870506     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1830483.1830731     Document Type: Conference Paper

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