Search-Based Software Engineering: 11th International Symposium, SSBSE 2019, Tallinn, Estonia, August 31 – September 1, 2019, Proceedings

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th International Symposium on Search-Based Software Engineering, SSBSE 2019, held in Tallinn, Estonia, in August/September 2019. The 9 research papers and 3 short papers presented together with 1 keynote and 1 challenge paper were carefully reviewed and selected from 28 submissions. SSBSE is a research area focused on the formulation of software engineering problems as search problems, and the subsequent use of complex heuristic techniques to attain optimal solutions to such problems. A wealth of engineering challenges - from test generation, to design refactoring, to process organization - can be solved efficiently through the application of automated optimization techniques. SBSE is a growing field - sitting at the crossroads between AI, machine learning, and software engineering - and SBSE techniques have begun to attain human-competitive results. Front Matter ....Pages i-xiv Front Matter ....Pages 1-1 Search-Based Predictive Modelling for Software Engineering: How Far Have We Gone? (Federica Sarro)....Pages 3-7 Front Matter ....Pages 9-9 A Systematic Comparison of Search Algorithms for Topic Modelling—A Study on Duplicate Bug Report Identification (Annibale Panichella)....Pages 11-26 Constructing Search Spaces for Search-Based Software Testing Using Neural Networks (Leonid Joffe, David Clark)....Pages 27-41 A Review of Ten Years of the Symposium on Search-Based Software Engineering (Thelma Elita Colanzi, Wesley Klewerton Guez Assunção, Paulo Roberto Farah, Silvia Regina Vergilio, Giovani Guizzo)....Pages 42-57 Does Diversity Improve the Test Suite Generation for Mobile Applications? (Thomas Vogel, Chinh Tran, Lars Grunske)....Pages 58-74 PRICE: Detection of Performance Regression Introducing Code Changes Using Static and Dynamic Metrics (Deema Alshoaibi, Kevin Hannigan, Hiten Gupta, Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer)....Pages 75-88 General Program Synthesis Using Guided Corpus Generation and Automatic Refactoring (Alexander Wild, Barry Porter)....Pages 89-104 A Search-Based Approach to Generate MC/DC Test Data for OCL Constraints (Hassan Sartaj, Muhammad Zohaib Iqbal, Atif Aftab Ahmed Jilani, Muhammad Uzair Khan)....Pages 105-120 Bio-Inspired Optimization of Test Data Generation for Concurrent Software (Ricardo F. Vilela, Victor H. S. C. Pinto, Thelma E. Colanzi, Simone R. S. Souza)....Pages 121-136 Revisiting Hyper-Parameter Tuning for Search-Based Test Data Generation (Shayan Zamani, Hadi Hemmati)....Pages 137-152 Front Matter ....Pages 153-153 Towards Automated Boundary Value Testing with Program Derivatives and Search (Robert Feldt, Felix Dobslaw)....Pages 155-163 Code Naturalness to Assist Search Space Exploration in Search-Based Program Repair Methods (Altino Dantas, Eduardo F. de Souza, Jerffeson Souza, Celso G. Camilo-Junior)....Pages 164-170 Dorylus: An Ant Colony Based Tool for Automated Test Case Generation (Dan Bruce, Héctor D. Menéndez, David Clark)....Pages 171-180 Front Matter ....Pages 181-181 Software Improvement with Gin: A Case Study (Justyna Petke, Alexander E. I. Brownlee)....Pages 183-189 Back Matter ....Pages 191-191