The Current State and Future of Search Based Software Engineering
FOSE '07 2007 Future of Software Engineering
Pareto optimal search based refactoring at the design level
Proceedings of the 9th annual conference on Genetic and evolutionary computation
Getting the most from search-based refactoring
Proceedings of the 9th annual conference on Genetic and evolutionary computation
The multi-objective next release problem
Proceedings of the 9th annual conference on Genetic and evolutionary computation
Editorial: Search-based software engineering
Computers and Operations Research
Search-based refactoring for software maintenance
Journal of Systems and Software
Locating dependence structures using search-based slicing
Information and Software Technology
Search-based refactoring: an empirical study
Journal of Software Maintenance and Evolution: Research and Practice - Search Based Software Engineering [SBSE]
Automated Design Improvement by Example
Proceedings of the 2007 conference on New Trends in Software Methodologies, Tools and Techniques: Proceedings of the sixth SoMeT_07
A two-step technique for extract class refactoring
Proceedings of the IEEE/ACM international conference on Automated software engineering
The relationship between search based software engineering and predictive modeling
Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Predictive Models in Software Engineering
Use of a multidimensional approach to study the evolution of software complexity
Innovations in Systems and Software Engineering
Identifying Extract Class refactoring opportunities using structural and semantic cohesion measures
Journal of Systems and Software
Identifying method friendships to remove the feature envy bad smell (NIER track)
Proceedings of the 33rd International Conference on Software Engineering
Benchmarking library and application software with Data Envelopment Analysis
Software Quality Control
Multi-level automated refactoring using design exploration
SSBSE'11 Proceedings of the Third international conference on Search based software engineering
Evolution of legacy system comprehensibility through automated refactoring
Proceedings of the International Workshop on Machine Learning Technologies in Software Engineering
A Precise Method-Method Interaction-Based Cohesion Metric for Object-Oriented Classes
ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM)
Why the virtual nature of software makes it ideal for search based optimization
FASE'10 Proceedings of the 13th international conference on Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering
Survey: A survey on search-based software design
Computer Science Review
Information and Software Technology
Using structural and semantic information to support software refactoring
Proceedings of the 34th International Conference on Software Engineering
Experimental assessment of software metrics using automated refactoring
Proceedings of the ACM-IEEE international symposium on Empirical software engineering and measurement
Search-based software engineering: Trends, techniques and applications
ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)
Controversy Corner: Search Based Software Engineering: Review and analysis of the field in Brazil
Journal of Systems and Software
Refactoring software packages via community detection in complex software networks
International Journal of Automation and Computing
On the existence of high-impact refactoring opportunities in programs
ACSC '12 Proceedings of the Thirty-fifth Australasian Computer Science Conference - Volume 122
Towards extensive software architecture erosion repairs
ECSA'13 Proceedings of the 7th European conference on Software Architecture
Software re-engineering using imperialist competitive algorithm
ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes
Improving software modularization via automated analysis of latent topics and dependencies
ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM)
Towards flexible automated software architecture erosion diagnosis and treatment
Proceedings of the WICSA 2014 Companion Volume
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The high cost of software maintenance could potentially be greatly reduced by the automatic refactoring of object-oriented programs to increase their understandability, adaptability and extensibility. This paper describes a novel approach in providing automated refactoring support for software maintenance; the formulation of the task as a search problem in the space of alternative designs. Such a search is guided by a quality evaluation function that must accurately reflect refactoring goals. We have constructed a search-based software maintenance tool and report here the results of experimental refactoring of two Java programs, which yielded improvements in terms of the quality functions used. We also discuss the comparative merits of the three quality functions employed and the actual effect on program design that resulted from their use.