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Recommending Refactorings to Re-establish Architectural Consistency

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Keeping the software architecture of a system and its implementation consistent can be tough. The larger and more complex a software system is, the more likely software architecture erosion occurs. This effect can lead to a decrease of quality with respect to adaptability, maintainability, or reusability.

Refactorings can help to reverse software architecture erosion through systematically applying them to resolve architecture violations. However, it can be difficult in complex systems to manually resolve all violations in an efficient way due to the complex interdependencies between them.

In this paper, we propose a new approach to the automatic recommendation of refactorings to resolve architecture violations based on a meta-heuristic search for an efficient set of refactorings. The approach is applied to resolve architectural dependency violations using the “move class” refactoring.

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  1. Lero–The Irish Software Engineering Research Centre, University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland

    Sebastian Herold

  2. Department of Informatics, Clausthal University of Technology, Julius-Albert-Str. 4, 38678, Clausthal-Zellerfeld, Germany

    Matthias Mair

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  1. University of Groningen, The Netherlands

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  2. Research Group Software Architecture, University of Vienna, Austria

    Uwe Zdun

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Herold, S., Mair, M. (2014). Recommending Refactorings to Re-establish Architectural Consistency. In: Avgeriou, P., Zdun, U. (eds) Software Architecture. ECSA 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8627. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-09970-5_33

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