The 1st CREST Open Workshop:

Search Based Software Engineering

 

Date:

24 - 25 November 2009

 

Venue:

CREST Centre. King's College London

 

Westley Weimer University of Virginia, USA

 

• Fixing Real Bugs in Real Programs With Genetic Algorithms

• The Quality of Automated Repairs

• Test Suite Selection for Automated Repair

• Open Questions in Automated Repair

   

 

 

Programme and Downloadable Resources:

Talks will be 25 minutes allowing 15 minutes for discussion and questions.

 

24 November 2009:

 

10:00    Refreshments

11:00    Welcome, Introduction & Overview (Slides: 1, Videos: 1)

              Mark Harman, CREST Centre, SSE Group, Department of Computer Science, UCL

11:30    Keynote: Wes Weimer, University of Virginia, USA (Slides: 1, 2, 3, Videos: 1, 2, 3, 4)

              1. Fixing Real Bugs in Real Programs With Genetic Algorithms

              2. The Quality of Automated Repairs

              3. Test Suite Selection for Automated Repair

              4. Open Questions in Automated Repair

13:00    Lunch

14:00    When Is an Meta?heuristic Approach Efficient in Search?Based Software
Engineering (Slides: 1, Videos: 1, 2)

              Xin Yao, University of Birmingham

14:45    Pushing the Boundaries in Regression Testing (Slides: 1, Videos: 1, 2)

              Shin Yoo, CREST Centre, SSE Group, Department of Computer Science, UCL

15:30    Refreshments

16:00    Quantum Software Engineering (Videos: 1, 2)

               John Clark,University of York

16:45    Search Based Test Data Generation (Slides: 1, Videos: 1, 2)

               Kiran Lakhotia, CREST Centre, SSE Group, Department of Computer Science, UCL

17:30    Discussion: Chaired by Elaine Weyuker (AT&T, USA)

18:00   Close

19:00   Dinner

 

25 November 2009

 

10:00    Refreshments

11:00    Interpreting a genetic programming population with nVidia C++ CUDA (Slides: 1, 2, Videos: 1, 2)

              Bill Langdon, CREST Centre, SSE Group, Department of Computer Science, UCL

11:45    Discussion on GPGPGPU: Chaired by John Clark, University of York

12:30    Lunch

14:00    Work in progress:

               Search based web application testing

               Nadia Alshahwan, CREST Centre, SSE Group, Department of Computer Science, UCL

               Test Data Generation for Semantic Mutants

               Matthew Patrick, University of York

               Search based web service testing

               Mustafa Bozkurt, CREST Centre, SSE Group, Department of Computer Science, UCL

15:30    Refreshments

16:00    Multi?Objective Optimization for Project Management

              Jian Ren, CREST Centre, SSE Group, Department of Computer Science, UCL

16:45    A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis of Evolutionary Testing and Hill Climbing for Structural Test Data Generation (Slides: 1, Videos: 1, 2)

              Mark Harman, CREST Centre, SSE Group, Department of Computer Science, UCL

17:30    Discussion

18:00    Close

 

Registered Attendees: (Registration is closed.)

1. Nadia Alshahwan CREST Centre , UK
2. Kelly Androutsopoulos CREST Centre , UK
3. Mustafa Bozkurt CREST Centre , UK
4. John Clark University of York , UK
5. Javier Ferrer University of Malaga , Spain
6. Nicolas Gold CREST Centre , UK
7. Matthew Hall University of Sheffield , UK
8. Tracy Hall Brunel University , UK
9. Mark Harman CREST Centre , UK
10. Youssef Hassoun CREST Centre , UK
11. Syed Islam CREST Centre , UK
12. Yue Jia CREST Centre , UK
13. Derek M. Jones Knowledge Software Ltd , UK
14. Jens Krinke CREST Centre , UK
15. Kiran Lakhotia CREST Centre , UK
16. William Langdon CREST Centre , UK
17. Claire Le Goues University of Virginia , USA
18. Zheng Li CREST Centre , UK
19. Phil McMinn University of Sheffield , UK
20. Simon Miles King's College London , UK
21. Marian Mohr CREST Centre , UK
22. Changhai Nie Nanjing University , China
23. Tom Ostrand AT&T Research , USA
24. Richard E Overill King's College London , UK
25. Matthew Patrick University of York , UK
26. Jian Ren CREST Centre , UK
27. Daniel Rodríguez University of Alcalá , Spain
28. Martin Shepperd Brunel University , UK
29. Jantje Silomon King's College London , UK
30. Wes Weimer University of Virginia , USA
31. Elaine Weyuker AT&T Research , USA
32. Xin Yao University of Birmingham , UK
33. Rebecca Yates University College Dublin , UK
34. Shin Yoo CREST Centre , UK
35. Yuanyuan Zhang CREST Centre , UK