7th International Workshop on

Search-Based Software Testing

June 2 - June 3, Hyderabad

Held in conjunction with ICSE 2014 - IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering

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Registration

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About the Workshop

Search-Based Software Testing (SBST) is the application of optimizing search techniques (for example, Genetic Algorithms) to solve problems in software testing. SBST is used to generate test data, prioritize test cases, minimize test suites, reduce human oracle cost, verify software models, test service-orientated architectures, construct test suites for interaction testing, and validate real-time properties.

The objectives of this workshop are to bring together researchers and industrial practitioners both from SBST and the wider software engineering community to share experience and provide directions for future research, and to encourage the use of search techniques in novel aspects of software testing in combination with other aspects of the software engineering lifecycle.

Keynotes

Lionel Briand

Lionel Briand

Professor and FNR PEARL Chair, Interdisciplinary Centre for ICT Security, Reliability and Trust (SnT) University of Luxembourg

"Applying SBST in industry"

Lionel Briand

Cristian Cadar

Cristian Cadar is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Computing at Imperial College London, where he leads the Software Reliability Group. His research interests involve building practical tools for improving the reliability and security of software systems.

"Combining DSE with SBST"

Accepted Papers

Moving the Goalposts: Coverage Satisfaction Is Not Enough

Gregory Gay, Matt Staats, Michael W. Whalen, and Mats P. E. Heimdahl

(University of Minnesota, USA; University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg)

An Overview of Search Based Combinatorial Testing

Huayao Wu and Changhai Nie

(Nanjing University, China)

Root Cause Analysis for HTML Presentation Failures using Search-Based Techniques

Sonal Mahajan, Bailan Li, and William G. J. Halfond

(University of Southern California, USA)

Code Hunt: Searching for Secret Code for Fun

Nikolai Tillmann, Judith Bishop, Nigel Horspool, Daniel Perelman, and Tao Xie

(Microsoft Research, USA; University of Victoria, Canada; University of Washington, USA; University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)

Test Generation across Multiple Layers

Matthias Höschele, Juan Pablo Galeotti, and Andreas Zeller

(Saarland University, Germany)

Search-Based Security Testing of Web Applications

Julian Thomé, Alessandra Gorla, and Andreas Zeller

(Saarland University, Germany)

PHD Paper Model Based Test Case Generation with Metaheuristics for Networks of Timed Automata

Joachim Haensel

(HPI, Germany)

Position Paper Search Based Techniques for Software Fault Prediction: Current Trends and Future Directions

Ruchika Malhotra

(Delhi Technological University, India)

Position Paper Hybrid Test Optimization Framework using Memetic Algorithm with Cuckoo Flocking Based Search Approach

Jeya Mala Dharmalingam, Sabarinathan S., and Balamurugan S.

(Thiagarajar College of Engineering, India; Tata Consultancy Services, India)

Program Schedule

Day 1 Day 2

  • 9:00am – 10:30am

    Introduction

    Lionel Briand: "Applying SBST in industry"

  • 10:30am – 11:00am

    Break

  • 11:00am – 12:30pm

    Paper Session 1 (3 papers)

    Moving the Goalposts: Coverage Satisfaction Is Not Enough

    Gregory Gay, Matt Staats, Michael W. Whalen, and Mats P. E. Heimdahl
    (University of Minnesota, USA; University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg)

    An Overview of Search Based Combinatorial Testing

    Huayao Wu and Changhai Nie
    (Nanjing University, China)

    Root Cause Analysis for HTML Presentation Failures using Search-Based Techniques

    Sonal Mahajan, Bailan Li, and William G. J. Halfond
    (University of Southern California, USA)

  • 12:30pm – 2:00pm

    Lunch

  • 2:00pm – 3:30pm

    PhD Paper + Position Papers

    PhD paper: Model Based Test Case Generation with Metaheuristics for Networks of Timed Automata

    Joachim Haensel
    (HPI, Germany)

    Position paper: Search Based Techniques for Software Fault Prediction: Current Trends and Future Directions

    Ruchika Malhotra
    (Delhi Technological University, India)

    Position paper: Hybrid Test Optimization Framework using Memetic Algorithm with Cuckoo Flocking Based Search Approach

    Jeya Mala Dharmalingam, Sabarinathan S., and Balamurugan S.
    (Thiagarajar College of Engineering, India; Tata Consultancy Services, India)

  • 3:30pm – 4:00pm

    Break

  • 4:00pm – 5:30pm

    All-participant discussion:

    Growing and developing the research community in India

Discussion Panel

Lionel Briand (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg) Cristian Cadar (Imperial College London, UK) Alex Orso (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA) Paolo Tonella (Fondazione Bruno Kessler–IRST, Italy) Andreas Zeller (Saarland University, Germany)

Discussion Statement:

"The SBST community should be extending their work on testing to address the problem of testing X. Possible fitness functions for X could be ..."

Program Committee

Wasif Afzal (Mälardalen University, Sweden) Rob Alexander (University of York, UK) Giuliano Antoniol (École Polytechnique de Montréal) Andrea Arcuri (Simula Research Labs, Norway) Earl Barr (University College London, UK) Mariano Ceccato (FBK (Fondazione Bruno Kessler) Trento, Italy) Francisco Chicano (University of Málaga) John Clark (University of York, UK) Myra Cohen (University of Nebraska at Lincoln, USA) Massimiliano Di Penta (University of Sannio, Italy) Robert Feldt (Chalmers University & Blekinge Inst of Tech., Sweden) Gordon Fraser (University of Sheffield, UK) Vahid Garousi (University of Calgary, Canada & Atilim University, Ankara, Turkey) Gregory Kapfhammer (Allegheny College, USA) Yvan Labiche (Carleton University, Canada) Zheng Li (Beijing University of Chemical Technology, China) Changhai Nie (Nanjing University, China) Justyna Petke (University College London, UK) Simon Poulding (University of York, UK) Marc Roper (University of Strathclyde) Gursaran Srivastava (Dayalbagh Educational Institute, India) Paolo Tonella (Fondazione Bruno Kessler–IRST, Italy) Tanja Vos (Universidad Politecnica de Valencia) Joachim Wegener (Berner & Mattner, Germany) Westley Weimer (University of Virginia, USA) David White (University of Glasgow, UK) Shin Yoo (University College London, UK) Andreas Zeller (Saarland University, Germany)

Organisation and Contact

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Programme Chair

Phil McMinn (University of Sheffield, UK) – p.mcminn@sheffield.ac.uk

Programme Chair

Mark Harman (University College London, UK) – mark.harman@ucl.ac.uk

Web & Publicity Chair

Sina Shamshiri (University of Sheffield, UK) – sina.shamshiri@sheffield.ac.uk

Co-Publicity Chair

Zheng Li (Beijing University of Chemical Technology, China) – z.li@ieee.org

Co-Publicity Chair

Gursaran Srivastava (Dayalbagh Educational Institute, India) – gursaran.db@gmail.com