Technical debt reduction using search based automated refactoring
Technical debt reduction using search based automated refactoring is a scholarly work, published in 2016 in ''Journal of Systems and Software''. The main subjects of the publication include software refactoring, reliability engineering, software metric, agile software development, quality, software system, computer science, software quality, software development, process, software engineering, technical debt, automation, extensibility, software, and software maintenance. Four out of the 6 programs show a larger improvement in the technical debt function after the search based refactoring process.