The 13th CREST Open Workshop

Future Internet Testing (FITTEST) & Search Based Software Engineering (SBSE)

Date:

Thursday 12th - Friday 13th May 2011

 

Venue:

William Goodenough Room, Goodenough Club (Directions)

 

Overview:

Search Based Software Engineering (SBSE) is an approach to software engineering in which search based optimization algorithms are used to identify optimal or near optimal solutions and to yield insight. There has been much recent activity in the field of SBSE with exciting results in many areas of Software Engineering including, Requirements, Planning, Prediction, Design, Testing, Bug Fixing, Maintenance and Re-Engineering.

SBSE's success derives from the manner in which SBSE techniques can cater for multiple, possibly completing objectives and constraints, coping and scaling well in  applications where the potential solution space is large and complex.

SBSE makes few assumptions about the underlying problem it is attempting to solve and is inherently adaptive. Hence it is ideal to cope with the dynamic, self-adapting, autonomous and unpredictable behavior of Future Internet Applications.

This workshop will bring together researchers and practitioners for a two day informal workshop to discuss recent developments and the possible directions for future work and industrial uptake of recent technological developments.

 

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Programme: (Downloadable Programme in PDF)

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

 

9:00 Arrival, Coffee and Pastries

9:30 Welcome and Introductions (Slides, Video)

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

9:45 Mutation Testing

         Searching for Program Invariants using Genetic Programming and Mutation Testing (Slides, Video)

         David White, University of York, UK

         Search Based Mutation Testing (Slides)

         Mike Papadakis, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece

         Fault Injection Testing at Ericsson: Challenges for the |esearch community (Slides, Video)

         Sigrid Eldh, Ericsson, Sweden

11:15 – 11:45 Coffee Break

11:45 Requirements & Planning

          Sensitivity Analysis for Requirements using Exact Optimization

          (Slides, Video, A description of the problem and the scalability experimental data)

          Francisco Palomo Lozano, UCASE Software Engineering Research Group, University of Cádiz, Spain

          Search Based Requirements Prioritization (Slides, Video)

          Soo Ling Lim, CREST Centre, SSE Group, Department of Computer Science UCL, UK

          Machine Learning for Software Effort Estimation (Slides, Video)

          Leandro Minku, University of Birmingham, UK

13:15 – 14:15 Lunch

14:15 Future directions in SBSE

          Learning from Hamming - Why the Big Problems Matter (Slides, Video)

          Peter Bentley, Department of Computer Science, UCL, UK

          Evolving Reasons for Software Tests (Slides, Video)

15:45 – 16:15 Coffee Break

16:15 Future directions in SBSE

          A GP Approach to Shader Optimization (Slides, Video)

          Westley Weimer, Department of Computer Science, University of Virginia, USA

17:45 Discussions, Wrap Up and Close of Day 1

18:30 Dinner at the Terrace Restaurant at UCL

 

                                   +++Day 2 - 13th May 2011+++

 

9:00 Arrival, Coffee and Pastries

9:30 Future directions in SBSE

          Motorola Software Engineering and Testing: Challenges for the Search Based Software Engineering Community  (Slides, Video) 

          Paul Baker, Motorola, UK

          Search Based Software Engineering for Model Based Development and Testing (Slides, Video)

          Alin Stefanescu, University of Pitesti, Romania

          Industrial Future Internet Testing Optimisation Needs (Slides, Video)

          Emitzá Guzmán Ortega, FastFix project, Institut für Informatik, Technische Universität München, Germany

10:45 – 11:15 Coffee Break

11:15 Industrial Future Internet Testing Optimisation Needs

          A Metaheuristic Approach to Test Sequence Generation for GUI-based Applications (Slides, Video)

          Joachim Wegener, Berner & Mattner, Germany

          Testing Challenges for the Research Community from IBM  (Slides, Video)

          Eitan Farchi, IBM Haifa Research Lab, Israel

          Testing Challenges for the Research Community from Softeam (Slides, Video)

          Cyril Ballagny, Softeam, France

12:45 – 13:45 Lunch

13:45 Working groups

15:15 – 15:45 Coffee Break

15:45 Future Directions in SBSE

          Theoretical Foundations of SBSE (Slides)

          Xin Yao, University of Birmingham, UK

          Automatically Documenting Program Changes (Slides, Video)

          Westley Weimer, Department of Computer Science, University of Virginia, USA

          Adventures in Quantum Programming Synthesis

          John Clark, University of York, UK

17:15 Concluding remarks

17:30 Close

 

Note: This is a draft programme. The start and finish times and times of lunch and refreshment breaks will remain unchanged.  Also, while the speakers are confirmed, titles below have been occasionally chosen as working titles by the organisers to indicate broad topic area and are subject to change as are the precise timings of talks, though not the overall structure of the two days.

 

Photos (Credits: Sue, Jian, Nadia, Cu, and others)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This workshop is supported by the following sponsors:

 

Registered Attendees: (Registration is CLOSED)

1. Sheeva Afshan, Department of Computer Science, University of Sheffield, UK
2. Wasif Afzal, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Karlkrona, Sweden
3. Nadia Alshahwan, CREST Centre, SSE Group, Department of Computer Science, UCL
4. Maria Anjum, Durham University, UK
5. Arthur Baars, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain
6. Paul Baker, Motorola, UK
7. Cyril Ballagny, Softeam, France
8. Peter Bentley, Department of Computer Science, UCL, UK
9. Sue Black, Department of Computer Science, UCL, UK
10. Mustafa, Bozkurt, CREST Centre, SSE Group, Department of Computer Science, UCL
11. John Clark, Department of Computer Science, University of York, UK
12. Sigrid Eldh, Ericsson AB, Sweden
13. Paolo Falcarin, School of Computing, IT and Engineering (CITE) University of East London, UK
14. Eitan Farchi, Software Performance Analysis Reviews and Quality (SPARQ) IBM Haifa Research Lab, Israel
15. Robert Feldt, Chalmers and Gothenburg University, Sweden
16. Javier Ferrer, University of Malaga, Spain
17. Lars Forsell, Ricksell Innovation AB, Sweden
18. Eric S Fraga, Department of Chemical Engineering, UCL, UK
19. Marcus Frenkel, FernUniversität in Hagen, Germany
20. Emitzá Guzmán Ortega, FastFix project, Institut für Informatik, Technische Universität München, Germany
21. Mathew Hall, Department of Computer Science, University of Sheffield, UK
22. Mark Harman, CREST Centre, SSE Group, Department of Computer Science, UCL, UK
23. Syed Islam, CREST Centre, SSE Group, Department of Computer Science, UCL, UK
24. Yue Jia, CREST Centre, SSE Group, Department of Computer Science, UCL, UK
25. Derek Jones, Knowledge Software, UK
26. Peter M. Kruse, Berner & Mattner, Germany
27. Kiran Lakhotia, CREST Centre, SSE Group, Department of Computer Science, UCL, UK
28. Bill Langdon, CREST Centre, SSE group, Department of Computer Science, UCL, UK
29. Soo Ling Lim, CREST Centre, SSE Group, Department of Computer Science, UCL, UK
30. Francisco Palomo Lozano, UCASE Software Engineering Research Group, University of Cádiz, Spain
31. Guanzhou Lu, School of Computer Science, University of Birmingham, UK
32. Bogdan Mihai Marculescu, Software Engineering Research Labs (SERL), Blekinge Institute of Technology, Karlskrona, Sweden
33. Phil McMinn, Department of Computer Science, University of Sheffield, UK
34. Leandro Minku, School of Computer Science, University of Birmingham, UK
35. Ahmad Nauman Ghazi, Software Engineering Research Labs (SERL), Blekinge Institute of Technology, Karlskrona, Sweden
36. Cu D. Nguyen, FBK, Italy
37. Martin Norström, Ricksell Innovation AB, Sweden
38. Mike Papadakis, Department of Informatics, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece
39. Wishnu Prasetya, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
40. Jian Ren, CREST Centre, SSE Group, Department of Computer Science, UCL, UK
41. Daniel Rodríguez, University of Reading, UK
42. Urko Rueda Molina, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain
43. Alin Stefanescu, University of Pitesti, Romania
44. Andreas Thies, FernUniversitaet in Hagen, Germany
45. Richard Torkar, Blekinge Institute of Technology (SWELL), Sweden
46. Tanja Vos, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain
47. Joachim Wegener, Berner & Mattner, Germany
48. Westley Weimer, Department of Computer Science, University of Virginia, USA
49. David White, Department of Computer Science, University of York, UK
50. Xin Yao, School of Computer Science, University of Birmingham, UK
51. Yuanyuan Zhang, CREST Centre, SSE Group, Department of Computer Science, UCL, UK