Search-based software engineering: Trends, techniques and applications

M Harman, SA Mansouri, Y Zhang - ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR), 2012 - dl.acm.org
In the past five years there has been a dramatic increase in work on Search-Based Software
Engineering (SBSE), an approach to Software Engineering (SE) in which Search-Based …

Search-based software testing: Past, present and future

P McMinn - 2011 IEEE Fourth International Conference on …, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Search-Based Software Testing is the use of a meta-heuristic optimizing search technique,
such as a Genetic Algorithm, to automate or partially automate a testing task, for example the …

Fairfuzz: A targeted mutation strategy for increasing greybox fuzz testing coverage

C Lemieux, K Sen - Proceedings of the 33rd ACM/IEEE international …, 2018 - dl.acm.org
In recent years, fuzz testing has proven itself to be one of the most effective techniques for
finding correctness bugs and security vulnerabilities in practice. One particular fuzz testing …

Metaheuristics optimization-based ensemble of deep neural networks for Mpox disease detection

S Asif, M Zhao, F Tang, Y Zhu, B Zhao - Neural Networks, 2023 - Elsevier
The rising number of cases of human Mpox has emerged as a major global concern due to
the daily increase of cases in several countries. The disease presents various skin …

Search-based software engineering

M Harman, BF Jones - Information and software Technology, 2001 - Elsevier
This paper claims that a new field of software engineering research and practice is
emerging: search-based software engineering. The paper argues that software engineering …

Achievements, open problems and challenges for search based software testing

M Harman, Y Jia, Y Zhang - 2015 IEEE 8th International …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Search Based Software Testing (SBST) formulates testing as an optimisation problem, which
can be attacked using computational search techniques from the field of Search Based …

The current state and future of search based software engineering

M Harman - Future of Software Engineering (FOSE'07), 2007 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper describes work on the application of optimization techniques in software
engineering. These optimization techniques come from the operations research and …

Search based software engineering: Techniques, taxonomy, tutorial

M Harman, P McMinn, JT De Souza, S Yoo - LASER Summer School on …, 2008 - Springer
Abstract The aim of Search Based Software Engineering (SBSE) research is to move
software engineering problems from human-based search to machine-based search, using …

[PDF][PDF] Search based software engineering: A comprehensive analysis and review of trends techniques and applications

M Harman, SA Mansouri, Y Zhang - 2009 - crest.cs.ucl.ac.uk
In the past five years there has been a dramatic increase in work on Search Based Software
Engineering (SBSE), an approach to software engineering in which search based …

Pareto optimal search based refactoring at the design level

M Harman, L Tratt - Proceedings of the 9th annual conference on …, 2007 - dl.acm.org
Refactoring aims to improve the quality of a software systems' structure, which tends to
degrade as the system evolves. While manually determining useful refactorings can be …