Addressing issues in software engineering automation using visualization and search-based methods

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The use of software is now part of our everyday life and the process of developing it has gone through several technological changes. Of the various research directions that have been studied, automation of Development and Maintenance Activities (DMAs) is the one that has gathered the most support. Automation helps reduce the complexity of such activities; for example, Model-Driven Engineering (MDE) approaches concentrate the development and maintenance effort on models and use automated transformation mechanisms to generate/modify code. Many factors limit the automation of DMAs. One of the most important ones is the lack of reliable and widely applicable knowledge for many activities. The lack-of-knowledge problem is amplified by the complexity of the DMAs.