Technical Debt Reduction Using Search Based Automated Refactoring

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• The paper was written to detail the experimentation conducted using the modified version of the A-CMA tool.

• A technical debt measure was proposed and tested by using it to refactor numerous open source Java programs in an automated approach.

• The preprint of the paper can be downloaded below along with presentation slides or found on QUB Pure and the published version of the paper can be found here.