SSBSE 2019 Program

Saturday, August 31th
08:45 - 09:00 Welcome from the conference organisers
09:00 - 10:00 Keynote 1: Thomas Bäck. Automatic Configuration and Learning for Evolutionary Computation.

The slides can be downloaded here

Chair: Shiva Nejati
10:05 - 10:30 Journal First Paper 1: - Chair: Fuyuki Ishikawa
  • Filomena Ferrucci, Pasquale Salza and Federica Sarro Using Hadoop MapReduce for Parallel Genetic Algorithms: A Comparison of the Global, Grid and Island Models
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break - Poster presentation
  • Azeem Ahmad Flaky Test Detection using Machine Learning Algorithms: A comparison
  • Jenjira Jaimunk Privacy-Preserving Model for Data Collection in IoT
11:00 - 12:30 Research Track 1: Reflections and New Directions - Chair: Justyna Petke
  • Thelma E. Colanzi, Wesley K. G. Assuncao, Paulo Roberto Farah, Silvia Vergilio and Giovani Guizzo A Review of Ten Years of the Symposium on Search-Based Software Engineering
  • Deema Alshoaibi, Hiten Gupta, Kevin Hannigan and Mohamed Mkaouer Detect Performance Regression by Combining Static and Dynamic metrics Using Evolutionary Algorithms
  • Alexander Wild and Barry Porter General Program Synthesis using Guided Corpus Generation and Automatic Refactoring
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 15:00 Tutorial 1: Nadia Alshahwan Testing Android Apps with Sapeinz

Chair: Federica Sarro
15:05 - 15:30 Steering committee election
15:30 - 16:00 Coffee Break - Poster presentation
  • Azeem Ahmad Flaky Test Detection using Machine Learning Algorithms: A comparison
  • Jenjira Jaimunk Privacy-Preserving Model for Data Collection in IoT
16:00 - 17:30 Student/Short Papers Track, and Challenge Track: Chair: Thomas Vogel
  • Robert Feldt and Felix Dobslaw Towards Automated Boundary Value Testing with Program Derivatives and Search
  • Altino Dantas, Eduardo Faria de Souza, Jerffeson Souza and Celso G. Camilo-Junior Code naturalness to assist search space exploration in Search-based Program Repair methods
  • Dan Bruce, Hector Menendez and David Clark An ant colony based approach to automated test case generation
  • Justyna Petke and Alexander Brownlee , Software Improvement with Gin: a Case Study
19:00 - 22:00 Banquet
Sunday, September 1st
08:45 - 09:00 SSBSE 2020
09:00 - 10:00 Keynote 2: Federica Sarro. Search-Based Predictive Modelling for Software Engineering: How Far Have We Gone?

Chair: Gregory Gay
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break - Poster presentation
  • Azeem Ahmad Flaky Test Detection using Machine Learning Algorithms: A comparison
  • Jenjira Jaimunk Privacy-Preserving Model for Data Collection in IoT
10:30 - 12:00 Research Track 2: Test Generation Chair: Annibale Panichella
  • Thomas Vogel, Chinh Tran and Lars Grunske Does Diversity Improve the Test Suite Generation for Mobile Applications?
  • Hassan Sartaj, Muhammad Zohaib Iqbal, Atif Aftab Jillani and Muhammad Uzair Khan A Search-based Approach to Generate MC/DC Test Data for OCL Constraints
  • Ricardo Vilela, Victor H. S. C. Pinto, Thelma E. Colanzi and Simone R. S. Souza Bio-inspired optimization of test data generation for concurrent programs
12:00 - 13:30 Lunch
13:30 - 14:30 Mini Tutorials:

Xavier Devroey and Pouria Derakhshanfar Automated Crash Replication with Search-based approaches (13:30 - 14:00)

Annibale Panichella EvoSQL: Search-Based Test Data Generation for SQL queries (14:00 - 14:30)

Chair: Shaukat Ali

14:30 - 15:00 Coffee Break - Poster presentation
  • Azeem Ahmad Flaky Test Detection using Machine Learning Algorithms: A comparison
  • Jenjira Jaimunk Privacy-Preserving Model for Data Collection in IoT
15:00 - 16:30 Research Track 3: Search Improvement - Chair: Felix Dobslaw
  • Annibale Panichella A Systematic Comparison of Search Algorithms for Topic Modelling --- A Study on Duplicate Bug Report Identification
  • Joffe and Clark Constructing Search Spaces for SBST using Machine Learning (H)
  • Shayan Zamani and Hadi Hemmati Revisiting Hyper-Parameter Tuning for Search-based Software Testing (C)
16:30 - Goodbye