Search Based Software Engineering: 4th International Symposium, SSBSE 2012, Riva del Garda, Italy, September 28-30, 2012. Proceedings

✍ Scribed by Kalyanmoy Deb (auth.), Gordon Fraser, Jerffeson Teixeira de Souza (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2012
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 304
• Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science 7515
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Fourth International Symposium on Search-Based Software Engineering, SSBSE 2012, held in Riva del Garda, Italy in collocation with the 28th IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance. The 15 revised full papers, 3 revised short papers, and 2 papers of the graduate track presented together with 2 keynote talks and 1 tutorial paper were carefully reviewed and selected from 38 initial submissions. Search-based Software Engineering (SBSE) studies the application of meta-heuristic optimization techniques to various software engineering problems, ranging from requirements engineering to software testing and maintenance. The papers present current research in all areas of Search Based Software Engineering, including theoretical work, research on SBSE applications, empirical studies, and reports on industrial experience.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages -
Advances in Evolutionary Multi-objective Optimization....Pages 1-26
SBSE Meets Software Maintenance: Achievements and Open Problems....Pages 27-28
Tutorial: High Performance SBSE Using Commodity Graphics Cards....Pages 29-29
Evolving Robust Networks for Systems-of-Systems....Pages 30-44
On the Application of SAT Solvers to the Test Suite Minimization Problem....Pages 45-59
Evaluating the Importance of Randomness in Search-Based Software Engineering....Pages 60-74
Putting the Developer in-the-Loop: An Interactive GA for Software Re-modularization....Pages 75-89
Optimizing Threads Schedule Alignments to Expose the Interference Bug Pattern....Pages 90-104
Optimised Realistic Test Input Generation Using Web Services....Pages 105-120
Improving Software Security Using Search-Based Refactoring....Pages 121-135
Combining Search-Based and Adaptive Random Testing Strategies for Environment Model-Based Testing of Real-Time Embedded Systems....Pages 136-151
Testing of Concurrent Programs Using Genetic Algorithms....Pages 152-167
Reverse Engineering Feature Models with Evolutionary Algorithms: An Exploratory Study....Pages 168-182
Searching for Pareto-optimal Randomised Algorithms....Pages 183-197
Automatically RELAXing a Goal Model to Cope with Uncertainty....Pages 198-212
Boosting Search Based Testing by Using Constraint Based Testing....Pages 213-227
Domain-Driven Reduction Optimization of Recovered Business Processes....Pages 228-243
Evolving Human Competitive Spectra-Based Fault Localisation Techniques....Pages 244-258
Applying Search Based Optimization to Software Product Line Architectures: Lessons Learned....Pages 259-266
Problem-Specific Search Operators for Metaheuristic Software Architecture Design....Pages 267-272
A Concept for an Interactive Search-Based Software Testing System....Pages 273-278
A Search-Based Framework for Failure Reproduction....Pages 279-284
Evolutionary Testing of PHP Web Applications with WETT....Pages 285-291
Back Matter....Pages -

✦ Subjects

Software Engineering; Operating Systems; Programming Techniques; Computation by Abstract Devices; Algorithm Analysis and Problem Complexity; Pattern Recognition