Search-Based Software Engineering

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiv

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2. Keynote

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Search-Based Predictive Modelling for Software Engineering: How Far Have We Gone?

      • Federica Sarro

      Pages 3-7

3. Research Papers

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 9-9

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   2. A Systematic Comparison of Search Algorithms for Topic Modelling—A Study on Duplicate Bug Report Identification

      • Annibale Panichella

      Pages 11-26

   3. Constructing Search Spaces for Search-Based Software Testing Using Neural Networks

      • Leonid Joffe, David Clark

      Pages 27-41

   4. A Review of Ten Years of the Symposium on Search-Based Software Engineering

      • Thelma Elita Colanzi, Wesley Klewerton Guez Assunção, Paulo Roberto Farah, Silvia Regina Vergilio, Giovani Guizzo

      Pages 42-57

   5. Does Diversity Improve the Test Suite Generation for Mobile Applications?

      • Thomas Vogel, Chinh Tran, Lars Grunske

      Pages 58-74

   6. PRICE: Detection of Performance Regression Introducing Code Changes Using Static and Dynamic Metrics

      • Deema Alshoaibi, Kevin Hannigan, Hiten Gupta, Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer

      Pages 75-88

   7. General Program Synthesis Using Guided Corpus Generation and Automatic Refactoring

      • Alexander Wild, Barry Porter

      Pages 89-104

   8. A Search-Based Approach to Generate MC/DC Test Data for OCL Constraints

      • Hassan Sartaj, Muhammad Zohaib Iqbal, Atif Aftab Ahmed Jilani, Muhammad Uzair Khan

      Pages 105-120

   9. Bio-Inspired Optimization of Test Data Generation for Concurrent Software

      • Ricardo F. Vilela, Victor H. S. C. Pinto, Thelma E. Colanzi, Simone R. S. Souza

      Pages 121-136

   10. Revisiting Hyper-Parameter Tuning for Search-Based Test Data Generation

       • Shayan Zamani, Hadi Hemmati

       Pages 137-152

4. Short and Student Papers

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 153-153

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   2. Towards Automated Boundary Value Testing with Program Derivatives and Search

      • Robert Feldt, Felix Dobslaw

      Pages 155-163

   3. Code Naturalness to Assist Search Space Exploration in Search-Based Program Repair Methods

      • Altino Dantas, Eduardo F. de Souza, Jerffeson Souza, Celso G. Camilo-Junior

      Pages 164-170

   4. Dorylus: An Ant Colony Based Tool for Automated Test Case Generation

      • Dan Bruce, Héctor D. Menéndez, David Clark

      Pages 171-180

5. Challenge Paper

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 181-181

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   2. Software Improvement with Gin: A Case Study

      • Justyna Petke, Alexander E. I. Brownlee

      Pages 183-189

6. Back Matter

   Pages 191-191

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th International Symposium on Search-Based Software Engineering, SSBSE 2019, held in Tallinn, Estonia, in August/September 2019. The 9 research papers and 3 short papers presented together with 1 keynote  and 1 challenge paper were carefully reviewed and selected from 28 submissions. SSBSE is a research area focused on the formulation of software engineering problems as search problems, and the subsequent use of complex heuristic techniques to attain optimal solutions to such problems. A wealth of engineering challenges - from test generation, to design refactoring, to process organization - can be solved efficiently through the application of automated optimization techniques. SBSE is a growing field - sitting at the crossroads between AI, machine learning, and software engineering - and SBSE techniques have begun to attain human-competitive results.

• search-based software engineering
• software engineering
• machine learning
• mobile applications
• software analytics
• model-based testing
• concurrent software testing
• partition testing
• evolutionary algorithms
• genetic algorithms
• programming languages
• search spaces
• software evaluation
• java
• algorithm analysis and problem complexity

• SnT/University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg, Luxembourg

  Shiva Nejati

• University of South Carolina, Columbia, USA

  Gregory Gay

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