Search-based software maintenance

Abstract

Abstract

The Effect of Communication Overhead on Software Maintenance Project Staffing: a Search-Based Approach

“…Search Based Software Engineering (SBSE) techniques are increasingly finding application to problems associated with software maintenance such as modularisation [20,27], refactoring [22,28], program comprehension [19], or next release planning [6,17,21,24,33]. A survey of SBSE can be found in a paper by Harman [18].…”

Methodbook: Recommending Move Method Refactorings via Relational Topic Models

“…However, most of the work in the field is related to techniques dealing with (semi-) automatic improvement of the design of a software system. In particular, authors have focused their attention on the identification of design problems that may represent refactoring opportunities [18], [19], [20], [21], re-modularization techniques [22], [23], [24], [25], [26], and refactoring approaches [9], [11], [27], [12], [28], [29], [30], [31], [32], [33], [34], [35]. Our approach is mostly related to the latter ones.…”

“…O'Keeffe et al [32] formulate the refactoring task as a search problem in the space of alternative designs. The alternative designs are generated by applying a set of refactoring operations, e.g., push up field, pull down method, collapse hierarchy while the search from the optimal design is guided by a quality evaluation function based on eleven object-oriented design metrics, i.e., the Chidamber and Kemerer (CK) metrics [36] that reflect refactoring goals.…”

“…Note that move method refactoring is not supported by this approach. Moreover, in the approach by O'Keeffe et al [32] only structural metrics are used while Methodbook also exploits textual information embedded in the code.…”

Algorithms of the UML Class Diagram Analysis and Their Effectiveness: Strategy and Interface Insertion Transformations

“…Software tools based on the SBSE approach include Dearthóir [12], Darwin [11], CODe-Imp [13], Bunch tool [14], etc.…”