This survey reviews published materials related to the specific area of Search-Based
Software Engineering that concerns software maintenance and, in particular, refactoring …

This paper presents a systematic literature review of deep learning (DL)-based software
refactoring, which involves restructuring and simplifying code without altering its external …

Software refactoring is a behavior-preserving activity to improve the source code quality
without changing its external behavior. Unfortunately, it is often a manual and error-prone …

Technical debt is a concept used to describe the lack of good practices during software
development, leading to several problems and costs. Identification and management …

Context: Software architecture refactoring can be induced by multiple reasons, such as
satisfying new functional requirements or improving non-functional properties. Multi …

Technical debt is the metaphor for shortcuts in software development that bring short-term
benefits, but long-term consequences hinder the process of maintaining and developing …

Architectural Technical Debt (ATD) refers to sub-optimal architectural design in a software
system that incurs high maintenance “interest” over time. Previous research revealed that …

Context Software maintenance is expensive and so anything that can be done to reduce its
cost is potentially of huge benefit. However, it is recognised that some maintenance …

Multi-objective optimization has demonstrated, in the last few years, to be an effective
paradigm to tackle different architectural problems, such as service selection, composition …

Context Nowadays, technical debt has become a very important issue in software project
management. The main mechanism to repay this debt is through refactoring. Refactoring …