Using Automatic Clustering to Produce High-Level System Organizations of Source Code

This paper describes a collection of algorithms that we developed and implemented to facilitate the automatic recovery of the modular structure of a software system from its source code. We treat automatic modularization as an optimization problem. Our algorithms make use of traditional hillclimbing and genetic algorithms.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 1998
• Where: IWPC
• Authors: Spiros Mancoridis, Brian S. Mitchell, C. Rorres, Yih-Farn Chen, Emden R. Gansner
• Keywords: Algorithms, Automatic Modularization, Automatic Recovery, IWPC 1998, Software Engineering