The 1st CREST Open Workshop. Topic: Search Based Software Engineering

Call for participation The 1st CREST Open Workshop / SEBASE Workshop 24th-25th November 2009 CREST Centre, King’s College London CREST is organising an informal SBSE workshop in the CREST centre in collaboration with the EPSRC SEBASE project partners at the Universities of York and Birmingham. You are warmly invited to attend and participate. A draft programme is attached to this email. Attendance is by registration. To register please email Jian Ren (jian.ren@kcl.ac.uk ) the workshop co-ordinator. The deadline for registration is 16th November 2009. We are delighted to announce the keynote talk of Wes Weimer, University of Virginia who will be giving a talk on the topic of automated software repair using Genetic Programming (GP). This work recently won the best paper award at ICSE 2009 and also the gold medal at GECCO 2009. The workshop will also include talks on search based testing, software engineering, theoretical foundations, quantum computing (using GP), GPGPGPU (exploiting the embarrassing parallelism of GP) and many other talks from leaders in the field of SBSE. The workshop will be informal and there will be plenty of time for discussion. Through the kind support of the EPSRC, we have funding to support the workshop, so registration is free. However, you will appreciate that numbers are limited and catering needs to be booked in advance, so registration followed by non attendance will cause the organisers some difficulty. For this reason, though the workshop is entirely free of charge, there will be a cancellation fee of £50 for those who register but subsequently fail to attend. Programme for the workshop:- --24th Nov. 10:00 Refreshments 11:00 Keynote: Wes Weimer 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 12:30 Lunch 14:00 When Is an Meta-heuristic Approach Efficient in Search-Based Software Engineering: Xin Yao 14:45 Pushing the Boundaries in Regression Testing: Shin Yoo 15:30 Refreshments 16:00 Quantum Software Engineering: John Clark 16:45 Search Based Test Data Generation: Kiran Lakhotia 17:30 Discussion: Chaired by Elaine Weyuker 18:00 Close 19:00 Dinner -- 25th Nov. 10:00 Refreshments 11:00 Interpreting a genetic programming population with nVidia C++ CUDA: Bill Langdon 11:45 Discussion on GPGPGPU: Chaired by John Clark 12:30 Lunch 14:00 Work in progress Search based web application testing: Nadia Alshahwan Test Data Generation for Semantic Mutants: Matthew Patrick Search based web service testing : Mustafa Bozkurt 15:30 Refreshments 16:00 Multi-Objective Optimization for Project Management: Jian Ren 16:45 A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis of Evolutionary Testing and Hill Climbing for Structural Test Data Generation: Mark Harman 17:30 Discussion 18:00 Close More details on the CREST Open Workshop Website at http://www.dcs.kcl.ac.uk/pg/renjian/COW/ Mark Harman, Director of CREST and head of Software Engineering, Department of Computer Science, King's College London, Strand, London WC2R 2LS, UK. Mark.Harman@kcl.ac.uk. Direct Line: +44 (0) 20 7848 2895. Switchboard: +44 (0) 20 7848 5454. Fax: +44 (0) 20 7848 2851. mark: http://www.dcs.kcl.ac.uk/staff/mark/ crest: http://crest.dcs.kcl.ac.uk/