Fundamental decisions are made in the early phases of software development. The typical
outcomes of these phases are models of different kinds, such as architectural models, data …

Due to the conflicting nature of quality measures, there are always multiple refactoring
options to fix quality issues. Thus, interaction with developers is critical to inject their …

Test amplification makes systematic changes to existing, manually written tests to provide
tests complementary to an automated test suite. We consider developer-centric test …

The multi-objective testing resource allocation problem (MOTRAP) aims at seeking a good
trade-off between system reliability, testing cost, and testing time, which is of significant …

Refactoring source code involves the developer in a myriad of program detail that can
obscure the design changes that they actually wish to bring about. On the other hand …

Search-Based Software Engineering (SBSE) offers solutions that efficiently explore large
complex problem spaces. To obtain more favorable solutions, human participation in the …

Abstract Software Product Line (SPL) is an approach derived from other engineering fields
that use reuse techniques for a family of products in a given domain. An essential artifact of …

Fault localization, a critical process of software debugging, can be implemented by ranking
program statements according to their suspiciousness of being faulty, which, in turn, is …

This work aims at giving an updated vision on the successful combination between
Metaheuristics and Software Engineering (SE). Mostly during the 90s, varied groups of …

Software testing is an efficient way to guarantee the reliability and accuracy of parallel
programs. Communication plays a substantial role in parallel program testing. The huge …