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Summary form only given. This talk explains how software maintenance and re-engineering activities can be viewed as a search for solutions that balance many competing constraints to achieve an optimal or near optimal result. This interpretation of the problems we face leads to the inevitable conclusion that the search process, as currently followed, is a woefully labour-intensive human activity; it...
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...
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