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Conference on Software Maintenance and Reengineering (CSMR'06)
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Search-Based Software Engineering for Maintenance and Reengineering
Mark Harman, King’s College London
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This talk will explain how software maintenance and reengineering
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 may not scale to meet the
demands of the new and emerging software evolution scenarios.
The aim of Search Based Software Engineering (SBSE) research is
to move software engineering problems from human-based search to
machine-based search, using a variety of techniques from the metaheuristic
search and evolutionary computation paradigms. As a result,
human effort moves up the abstraction chain to focus on guiding the
automated search, rather than performing it.
The talk will describe the search based approach, giving examples
of past and possible future success in software maintenance and re
engineering automation. The talk will explain some of the benefits
that accrue from this approach, paying particular attention to its attractive
scalability and robustness characteristics and the way in
which the search process yields insight and provides feedback on the
solutions that it identifies.
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Citation:
Mark Harman,
"Search-Based Software Engineering for Maintenance and Reengineering,"
csmr,
p. 311,
Conference on Software Maintenance and Reengineering (CSMR'06),
2006
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