Search Based Software Engineering

About Search Based Software Engineering

The research into search based software engineering applies techniques such as genetic algorithms and simulated annealing to modern software engineering problems, attempting to optimise the software project under specific parameters.

Reseach Papers

• Arzoky, M., Swift, S., Tucker, A. and Cain, J. (2012) 'A seeded search for the modularisation of sequential software versions'. Journal of Object Technology, 11 (2). pp. 6:1 - 6:1. ISSN: 1660-1769
• Kalaji, AS., Hierons, RM. and Swift, S. (2010) 'An integrated search-based approach for automatic testing from extended finite state machine (EFSM) models'. Information and Software Technology, 53 (12). pp. 1297 - 1318. ISSN: 0950-5849
• Cain, J., Counsell, S., Swift, S. and Tucker, A. (2009) 'An application of intelligent data analysis techniques to a large software engineering dataset'.8th International Symposium on Intelligent Data Analysis. Lyon, FRANCE. Springer. pp. 261 - 272. ISSN: 0302-9743
• Song, Q., Shepperd, M., Chen, X. and Liu, J. (2008) 'Can k-NN imputation improve the performance of C4.5 with small software project data sets? a comparative evaluation'. Journal of Systems and Software, 81 (12). pp. 2361 - 2370. ISSN: 0164-1212
• Liebchen, G. and Shepperd, M. (2008) 'Data sets and data quality in software engineering'.PROMISE 2008.
• Harman, M., Swift, S. and Mahdavi, K. (2005) 'An empirical study of the robustness of two module clustering fitness functions'.The Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-2005). Washington, DC. ACM Press. pp. 1029 - 1036.
• Twala, B., Cartwright, M. and Shepperd, M. (2005) 'Comparison of various methods for handling incomplete data in software engineering databases'. 2005 International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering, ISESE 2005. pp. 105 - 114.
• Clarke, J., Dolado, JJ., Harman, M., Hierons, RM., Jones, B., Lumkin, M., et al. (2003) 'Reformulating software engineering as a search problem'. IEE Proceedings - Software, 150 (3). pp. 161 - 175. ISSN: 1462-5970
• Counsell, S., Liu, X., Najjar, R., Swift, S. and Tucker, A. (2003) 'Applying intelligent data analysis to coupling relationships in object-oriented software'.The Fifth International Symposium on Intelligent Data Analysis (IDA-2003). BERLIN, GERMANY. SPRINGER-VERLAG BERLIN. pp. 440 - 450. ISSN: 0302-9743