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 …

The use of metaheuristic search techniques for the automatic generation of test data has
been a burgeoning interest for many researchers in recent years. Previous attempts to …

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 …

Metaheuristic search techniques have been extensively used to automate the process of
generating test cases, and thus providing solutions for a more cost-effective testing process …

This paper describes work on the application of optimization techniques in software
engineering. These optimization techniques come from the operations research and …

Software module clustering is the problem of automatically organizing software units into
modules to improve program structure. There has been a great deal of recent interest in …

Since modern software systems are large and complex, appropriate abstractions of their
structure are needed to make them more understandable and, thus, easier to maintain …

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 …

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 …

A Project Scheduling Problem consists in deciding who does what during the software
project lifetime. This is a capital issue in the practice of software engineering, since the total …