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

软件的使用现在是我们日常生活的一部分，开发它的过程经历了几次技术变革。在已研究的各种研究方向中，开发和维护活动自动化(DMAS)是得到最多支持的一个。自动化有助于降低此类活动的复杂性；例如，模型驱动工程(Model-Driven Engineering，MDE)方法将开发和维护工作集中在模型上，并使用自动转换机制来生成/修改代码。许多因素限制了DMA的自动化。其中最重要的一个问题是，许多活动缺乏可靠和广泛适用的知识。由于DMA的复杂性，缺乏知识的问题被放大了。

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.