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In this paper we report on the evolution of Apache Ant, a build automation tool developed in Java. We observed a typical case of architectural mismatch in this system: its original simple design was lost due to maintenance and addition of new features. We have applied SBSE techniques to determine whether the search would be able to recover at least parts of the original design, in a metrics-based optimization. We observed that current SBSE techniques produce complex designs, but they also allow us to study the limitations of present design metrics. In the end, we propose a new research perspective joining software clustering and refactoring selection to improve software evolution.
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de Oliveira Barros, M., de Almeida Farzat, F. (2013). What Can a Big Program Teach Us about Optimization?. In: Ruhe, G., Zhang, Y. (eds) Search Based Software Engineering. SSBSE 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8084. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-39742-4_24
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