A survey of many-objective optimisation in search-based software engineering

A Ramirez, JR Romero, S Ventura - Journal of Systems and Software, 2019 - Elsevier
Search-based software engineering (SBSE) is changing the way traditional software
engineering (SE) activities are carried out by reformulating them as optimisation problems …

How to evaluate solutions in Pareto-based search-based software engineering: A critical review and methodological guidance

M Li, T Chen, X Yao - IEEE Transactions on Software …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With modern requirements, there is an increasing tendency of considering multiple
objectives/criteria simultaneously in many Software Engineering (SE) scenarios. Such a …

Pareto-optimal search-based software engineering (POSBSE): A literature survey

AS Sayyad, H Ammar - 2013 2nd International Workshop on …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The Search-Based Software Engineering (SBSE) community is increasingly recognizing the
inherit “multiobjectiveness” in Software Engineering problems. The old ways of aggregating …

A practical guide to select quality indicators for assessing pareto-based search algorithms in search-based software engineering

S Wang, S Ali, T Yue, Y Li, M Liaaen - Proceedings of the 38th …, 2016 - dl.acm.org
Many software engineering problems are multi-objective in nature, which has been largely
recognized by the Search-based Software Engineering (SBSE) community. In this regard …

Advances in evolutionary multi-objective optimization

K Deb - Search Based Software Engineering: 4th International …, 2012 - Springer
Started during 1993-95 with three different algorithms, evolutionary multi-objective
optimization (EMO) has come a long way in a quick time to establish itself as a useful field of …

The weights can be harmful: Pareto search versus weighted search in multi-objective search-based software engineering

T Chen, M Li - ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
In presence of multiple objectives to be optimized in Search-Based Software Engineering
(SBSE), Pareto search has been commonly adopted. It searches for a good approximation of …

Quality indicators in search-based software engineering: An empirical evaluation

S Ali, P Arcaini, D Pradhan, SA Safdar… - ACM Transactions on …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
Search-Based Software Engineering (SBSE) researchers who apply multi-objective search
algorithms (MOSAs) often assess the quality of solutions produced by MOSAs with one or …

A hyper-heuristic for the multi-objective integration and test order problem

G Guizzo, GM Fritsche, SR Vergilio… - Proceedings of the 2015 …, 2015 - dl.acm.org
Multi-objective evolutionary algorithms (MOEAs) have been efficiently applied to Search-
Based Software Engineering (SBSE) problems. However, skilled software engineers waste …

The human competitiveness of search based software engineering

JT de Souza, CL Maia, FG de Freitas… - … on Search Based …, 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper reports a comprehensive experimental study regarding the human
competitiveness of search based software engineering (SBSE). The experiments were …

A multi-objective and evolutionary hyper-heuristic applied to the integration and test order problem

G Guizzo, SR Vergilio, ATR Pozo, GM Fritsche - Applied Soft Computing, 2017 - Elsevier
Abstract The field of Search-Based Software Engineering (SBSE) has widely utilized Multi-
Objective Evolutionary Algorithms (MOEAs) to solve complex software engineering …