Automatic software refactoring: a systematic literature review

AAB Baqais, M Alshayeb - Software Quality Journal, 2020 - Springer
Refactoring a software artifact is an embedded task in the maintenance phase of the
software life cycle. To reduce the time and effort required for this task, researchers proposed …

A systematic review of interaction in search-based software engineering

A Ramirez, JR Romero… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Search-Based Software Engineering (SBSE) has been successfully applied to automate a
wide range of software development activities. Nevertheless, in those software engineering …

A survey on machine learning techniques for source code analysis

T Sharma, M Kechagia, S Georgiou, R Tiwari… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2021 - arxiv.org
The advancements in machine learning techniques have encouraged researchers to apply
these techniques to a myriad of software engineering tasks that use source code analysis …

Many-objective software remodularization using NSGA-III

W Mkaouer, M Kessentini, A Shaout… - ACM Transactions on …, 2015 - dl.acm.org
Software systems nowadays are complex and difficult to maintain due to continuous
changes and bad design choices. To handle the complexity of systems, software products …

[HTML][HTML] A survey on machine learning techniques applied to source code

T Sharma, M Kechagia, S Georgiou, R Tiwari… - Journal of Systems and …, 2024 - Elsevier
The advancements in machine learning techniques have encouraged researchers to apply
these techniques to a myriad of software engineering tasks that use source code analysis …

A survey on search-based model-driven engineering

I Boussaïd, P Siarry, M Ahmed-Nacer - Automated Software Engineering, 2017 - Springer
Abstract Model-driven engineering (MDE) and search-based software engineering (SBSE)
are both relevant approaches to software engineering. MDE aims to raise the level of …

Considering dependencies between bug reports to improve bugs triage

R Almhana, M Kessentini - Automated Software Engineering, 2021 - Springer
Software development teams need to deal with several open reports of critical bugs to be
addressed urgently and simultaneously. The management of these bugs is a complex …

A microservice decomposition method through using distributed representation of source code

O Al-Debagy, P Martinek - Scalable Computing: Practice and Experience, 2021 - scpe.org
This research proposed a novel decomposition method for refactoring monolithic
applications into microservices applications using a neural network model (code2vec) for …

Multi-objective code reviewer recommendations: balancing expertise, availability and collaborations

S Rebai, A Amich, S Molaei, M Kessentini… - Automated Software …, 2020 - Springer
Modern Code review is one of the most critical tasks in software maintenance and evolution.
A rigorous code review leads to fewer bugs and reduced overall maintenance costs. Most …

A survey of search-based refactoring for software maintenance

M Mohan, D Greer - Journal of Software Engineering Research and …, 2018 - Springer
This survey reviews published materials related to the specific area of Search-Based
Software Engineering that concerns software maintenance and, in particular, refactoring …