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 …

A systematic review of the application and empirical investigation of search-based test case generation

S Ali, LC Briand, H Hemmati… - IEEE Transactions …, 2009 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
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 …

From start-ups to scale-ups: Opportunities and open problems for static and dynamic program analysis

M Harman, P O'Hearn - 2018 IEEE 18Th international working …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper describes some of the challenges and opportunities when deploying static and
dynamic analysis at scale, drawing on the authors' experience with the Infer and Sapienz …

A theoretical and empirical study of search-based testing: Local, global, and hybrid search

M Harman, P McMinn - IEEE Transactions on Software …, 2009 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Search-based optimization techniques have been applied to structural software test data
generation since 1992, with a recent upsurge in interest and activity within this area …

Higher order mutation testing

Y Jia, M Harman - Information and Software Technology, 2009 - Elsevier
This paper introduces a new paradigm for Mutation Testing, which we call Higher Order
Mutation Testing (HOM Testing). Traditional Mutation Testing considers only first order …

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 …

[图书][B] Model-based testing for embedded systems

J Zander, I Schieferdecker, PJ Mosterman - 2017 - books.google.com
What the experts have to say about Model-Based Testing for Embedded Systems:" This
book is exactly what is needed at the exact right time in this fast-growing area. From its …

Strong higher order mutation-based test data generation

M Harman, Y Jia, WB Langdon - Proceedings of the 19th ACM SIGSOFT …, 2011 - dl.acm.org
This paper introduces SHOM, a mutation-based test data generation approach that
combines Dynamic Symbolic Execution and Search Based Software Testing. SHOM targets …

An extensive evaluation of search-based software testing: a review

M Khari, P Kumar - Soft Computing, 2019 - Springer
In recent years, search-based software testing (SBST) is the active research topic in software
testing. SBST is the process of generating test cases that use metaheuristics for optimization …