8th international workshop on search-based software testing (SBST 2015)

Abstract

This paper is a report on the 8th International Workshop on Search-Based Software Testing at the 37th International Conference on Sofrware Engineering (ICSE). Search-Based Software Testing (SBST) is a form of Search-Based Software Engineering (SBSE) that optimizes testing through the use of computational search. 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 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 to combine aspects of testing with other aspects of the software engineering lifecycle.Three full research papers, three short papers, and three position papers will be presented in the two-day workshop. Additionally, six development groups have pitted their test generation tools against a common set of programs and benchmarks, and will present their techniques and results. This report will give the background of the workshop and detail the provisional program.