Gachnang, Philip2023-12-222023-12-222016https://irf.fhnw.ch/handle/11654/40186The metaheuristic optimization framework OpenOpal has been developed for 10 years and gained in functionality as well as in complexity. Many different projects with different teams and developers did work on OpenOpal. So far the software has been developed primarily on personal initiative. Especially student projects in the scope of team projects and bachelor or master theses have contributed to the development. OpenOpal is heterogeneous, the many different projects and frequent change of developers has resulted in a software, which is difficult to maintain and extend.de330 - Wirtschaft11 - Studentische Arbeit