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CSMR
2006
IEEE
13 years 6 months ago
2006
IEEE
The high cost of software maintenance could potentially be greatly reduced by the automatic refactoring of object-oriented programs to increase their understandability, adaptabili...
GECCO
2007
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
2007
Springer
Refactoring aims to improve the quality of a software systems’ structure, which tends to degrade as the system evolves. While manually determining useful refactorings can be cha...
GECCO
2009
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
2009
Springer
Software testing can be re-formulated as a search problem, hence search algorithms (e.g., Genetic Algorithms) can be used to tackle it. Most of the research so far has been of emp...
SIGSOFT
2005
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
2005
ACM
We want to explore and analyse design decisions that influence maintainability of software. Software maintainability is important because the effort expended on changes and fixes ...
ESEM
2007
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
2007
ACM
Context: There is little empirical knowledge of the effectiveness of the object-oriented paradigm. Objectives: To conduct a systematic review of the literature describing empirica...