SOLAR Publications

@article{blot:2021:tevc,
  author    = {Aymeric Blot and
               Justyna Petke},
  title     = {Empirical Comparison of Search Heuristics for Genetic Improvement of Software},
  journal   = {{IEEE} Transactions on Evolutionary Computation},
  doi       = {10.1109/TEVC.2021.3070271},
  year      = {2021},
}

		@article{hort21tse,
			author = {Hort, Max and Kechagia, Maria, and Sarro, Federica and Harman, Mark},
			title = {A Survey of Performance Optimization
			for Mobile Applications},
			journal   = {IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE)},
			publisher = {IEEE},
			year = {2021},
		}
	

		@ARTICLE {mkechagia_tse_2021,
			author = {M. Kechagia and S. Mechtaev and F. Sarro and M. Harman},
			journal = {IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering},
			title = {Evaluating Automatic Program Repair Capabilities to Repair API Misuses},
			year = {2021},
			volume = {},
			number = {01},
			issn = {1939-3520},
			pages = {1-1},
			doi = {10.1109/TSE.2021.3067156},
			publisher = {IEEE Computer Society},
			address = {Los Alamitos, CA, USA},
			month = {mar}
		}
	

		@inproceedings{guizzo_icse_2021,
			author          = {Guizzo, Giovani and Petke, Justyna and Sarro, Federica and Harman, Mark},
			booktitle       = {Proceedings of the 43rd International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE)},
			publisher       = {ACM},
			title           = {{Enhancing Genetic Improvement of Software with Regression Test Selection}},
			year            = {2021}
		}
	

		@article{mkechagia_peerj_2021,
			author    = {Spinellis, Diomidis and Louridas, Panos and Kechagia, Maria},
			journal   = {PeerJ Computer Science},
			title     = {Software evolution: the lifetime of fine-grained elements},
			year      = {2021},
			volume    = {e372},
			pages     = {1-33},
			number    = {7},
			url       = {https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj-cs.372},
			doi       = {10.7717/peerj-cs.372}
		}
	

@inproceedings{smigielska:2021:icse-workshops,
  author    = {Marta Smigielska and
               Aymeric Blot and
               Justyna Petke},
  title     = {Uniform Edit Selection for Genetic Improvement: Empirical Analysis of Mutation Operator Efficacy},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 43rd International Conference on Software Engineering: Workshops ({ICSE} 2021 Workshops)},
  publisher = {ACM},
  year      = {2021},
}

@inproceedings{bian:2021:icse-workshops,
  author    = {Zhiqiang Bian and
               Aymeric Blot and
               Justyna Petke},
  title     = {Refining Fitness Functions for Search-Based Program Repair},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 43rd International Conference on Software Engineering: Workshops ({ICSE} 2021 Workshops)},
  publisher = {ACM},
  year      = {2021},
}

@inproceedings{callan:2021:icse-workshops,
  author    = {James Callan and
               Justyna Petke},
  title     = {Optimising SQL Queries Using Genetic Improvement},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 43rd International Conference on Software Engineering: Workshops ({ICSE} 2021 Workshops)},
  publisher = {ACM},
  year      = {2021},
}

		@inproceedings{brownlee_cec_2020,
			author    = {Alexander E. I. Brownlee and
						 Justyna Petke and
						 Anna F. Rasburn},
			title     = {Injecting Shortcuts for Faster Running Java Code},
			booktitle = {{IEEE} Congress on Evolutionary Computation, {CEC} 2020, Glasgow,
						 United Kingdom, July 19-24, 2020},
			pages     = {1--8},
			publisher = {{IEEE}},
			year      = {2020},
			url       = {https://doi.org/10.1109/CEC48606.2020.9185708},
			doi       = {10.1109/CEC48606.2020.9185708},
			timestamp = {Fri, 11 Sep 2020 15:04:20 +0200},
			biburl    = {https://dblp.org/rec/conf/cec/BrownleePR20.bib},
			bibsource = {dblp computer science bibliography, https://dblp.org}
		  }
	

		@article{wu_tse2020,
			author    = {Huayao Wu and
						 Changhai Nie and
						 Justyna Petke and
						 Yue Jia and
						 Mark Harman},
			title     = {An Empirical Comparison of Combinatorial Testing, Random Testing and
						 Adaptive Random Testing},
			journal   = {{IEEE} Trans. Software Eng.},
			volume    = {46},
			number    = {3},
			pages     = {302--320},
			year      = {2020},
			url       = {https://doi.org/10.1109/TSE.2018.2852744},
			doi       = {10.1109/TSE.2018.2852744},
			timestamp = {Thu, 09 Apr 2020 01:00:00 +0200},
			biburl    = {https://dblp.org/rec/journals/tse/WuNPJH20.bib},
			bibsource = {dblp computer science bibliography, https://dblp.org}
		  }
	

		@article{colanzi_ist2020,
			title = "The Symposium on Search-Based Software Engineering: Past, Present and Future",
			journal = "Information and Software Technology",
			volume = "127",
			pages = "106372",
			year = "2020",
			issn = "0950-5849",
			doi = "https://doi.org/10.1016/j.infsof.2020.106372",
			author = "Thelma Elita Colanzi and Wesley K.G. Assunção and Silvia R. Vergilio and Paulo Roberto Farah and Giovani Guizzo"
		}
	

		@article{sarro2020learning,
			title={Learning From Mistakes: Machine Learning Enhanced Human Expert Effort Estimates},
			author={Sarro, Federica and Moussa, Rebecca and Petrozziello, Alessio and Harman, Mark},
			journal={IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering},
			year={2020},
			publisher={IEEE}
		  }
	

		@ARTICLE{guizzo_tse2020,
			author={G. {Guizzo} and F. {Sarro} and J. {Krinke} and S. R. {Vergilio}},
			journal={IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering}, 
			title={Sentinel: A Hyper-Heuristic for the Generation of Mutant Reduction Strategies}, 
			year={2020}
		}
	

		@article{Gao_IST2020,
title = "Do users care about ad’s performance costs? Exploring the effects of the performance costs of in-app ads on user experience",
journal = "Information and Software Technology",
pages = "106471",
year = "2020",
issn = "0950-5849",
doi = "https://doi.org/10.1016/j.infsof.2020.106471",
url = "http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0950584920302160",
author = "Cuiyun Gao and Jichuan Zeng and Federica Sarro and David Lo and Irwin King and Michael R. Lyu"
}
	

		@inproceedings{AlSubaihin_ssbse2020,
			title={Exploring the Use of Genetic Algorithm Clustering for Mobile App Categorisation},
			author={Al-Subaihin, Afnan A and Sarro, Federica},
			booktitle={International Symposium on Search Based Software Engineering},
			pages={181--187},
			year={2020},
			organization={Springer}
		  }
	

		@inproceedings{limssbse2020,
			author    = {Mingyi Lim and
						 Giovani Guizzo and
						 Justyna Petke},
			editor    = {Aldeida Aleti and
						 Annibale Panichella},
			title     = {Impact of Test Suite Coverage on Overfitting in Genetic Improvement
						 of Software},
			booktitle = {Search-Based Software Engineering - 12th International Symposium,
						 {SSBSE} 2020, Bari, Italy, October 7-8, 2020, Proceedings},
			series    = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science},
			volume    = {12420},
			pages     = {188--203},
			publisher = {Springer},
			year      = {2020},
			url       = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-59762-7\_14},
			doi       = {10.1007/978-3-030-59762-7\_14},
			timestamp = {Wed, 30 Sep 2020 18:02:38 +0200},
			biburl    = {https://dblp.org/rec/conf/ssbse/LimGP20.bib},
			bibsource = {dblp computer science bibliography, https://dblp.org}
		  }
	

		@inproceedings{blot_icsew_2020b,
			author    = {Aymeric Blot and
						 Justyna Petke},
			title     = {Stack-Based Genetic Improvement},
			booktitle = {{ICSE} '20: 42nd International Conference on Software Engineering,
						 Workshops, Seoul, Republic of Korea, 27 June - 19 July, 2020},
			pages     = {289--290},
			publisher = {{ACM}},
			year      = {2020},
			url       = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3387940.3392174},
			doi       = {10.1145/3387940.3392174},
			timestamp = {Fri, 16 Oct 2020 11:06:55 +0200},
			biburl    = {https://dblp.org/rec/conf/icse/BlotP20a.bib},
			bibsource = {dblp computer science bibliography, https://dblp.org}
		  }
	

		@inproceedings{blot_icsew_2020,
			author    = {Aymeric Blot and
						 Justyna Petke},
			title     = {Synthetic Benchmarks for Genetic Improvement},
			booktitle = {{ICSE} '20: 42nd International Conference on Software Engineering,
						 Workshops, Seoul, Republic of Korea, 27 June - 19 July, 2020},
			pages     = {287--288},
			publisher = {{ACM}},
			year      = {2020},
			url       = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3387940.3392175},
			doi       = {10.1145/3387940.3392175},
			timestamp = {Fri, 16 Oct 2020 11:06:55 +0200},
			biburl    = {https://dblp.org/rec/conf/icse/BlotP20.bib},
			bibsource = {dblp computer science bibliography, https://dblp.org}
		  }
	

		@inproceedings{petke_icsew_2020,
			author    = {Justyna Petke and
						 Aymeric Blot},
			title     = {Refining Fitness Functions in Test-Based Program Repair},
			booktitle = {{ICSE} '20: 42nd International Conference on Software Engineering,
						 Workshops, Seoul, Republic of Korea, 27 June - 19 July, 2020},
			pages     = {13--14},
			publisher = {{ACM}},
			year      = {2020},
			url       = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3387940.3392180},
			doi       = {10.1145/3387940.3392180},
			timestamp = {Fri, 16 Oct 2020 11:06:55 +0200},
			biburl    = {https://dblp.org/rec/conf/icse/PetkeB20.bib},
			bibsource = {dblp computer science bibliography, https://dblp.org}
		  }
	

		@inproceedings{blot_eurogp_2020,
			author    = {Aymeric Blot and
						 Justyna Petke},
			editor    = {Ting Hu and
						 Nuno Louren{\c{c}}o and
						 Eric Medvet and
						 Federico Divina},
			title     = {Comparing Genetic Programming Approaches for Non-functional Genetic
						 Improvement},
			booktitle = {Genetic Programming - 23rd European Conference, EuroGP 2020, Held
						 as Part of EvoStar 2020, Seville, Spain, April 15-17, 2020, Proceedings},
			series    = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science},
			volume    = {12101},
			pages     = {68--83},
			publisher = {Springer},
			year      = {2020},
			url       = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-44094-7\_5},
			doi       = {10.1007/978-3-030-44094-7\_5},
			timestamp = {Mon, 04 May 2020 01:00:00 +0200},
			biburl    = {https://dblp.org/rec/conf/eurogp/BlotP20.bib},
			bibsource = {dblp computer science bibliography, https://dblp.org}
		  }
	

		@inproceedings{guizzoFSE2020,
			title={Cost Measures Matter for Mutation Testing Study Validity},
			author={G. {Guizzo} and F. {Sarro} and M. {Harman}},
			booktitle={Proceedings of the ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC/FSE’20)},
			year={2020}
		}
	

		@inproceedings{zhao2020fruiter,
			title={FrUITeR - A Framework for Evaluating UI Test Reuse},
			author={Y. Zhao, J. Chen, A. Sejfia, M. S. Laser, J. M. Zhang, F. Sarro, M. Harman, N. Medvidović},
			booktitle={Proceedings of 28th ACM Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering},
			year={2020}
		}
	

@inproceedings{hort2020optimising,
  title={Optimising word embeddings with search-based approaches},
  author={Hort, Max and Sarro, Federica},
  booktitle={Proceedings of the 2020 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference Companion},
  pages={269--270},
  year={2020}
}

	@inproceedings{sarro2020new,
		title={A New Approach to Distribute MOEA Pareto Front Computation},
		author={Sarro, Federica and Petrozziello, Alessio and He, Dan-Qi and Yoo, Shin},
		year={2020},
		organization={Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference}
	  }

	@article{zhang2019machine,
		title={Machine learning testing: Survey, landscapes and horizons},
		author={Zhang, Jie M and Harman, Mark and Ma, Lei and Liu, Yang},
		journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:1906.10742},
		year={2020}
	  }

	@article{di2020assessing,
		title={Assessing the Effectiveness of Approximate Functional Sizing Approaches for Effort Estimation},
		author={Di Martino, Sergio and Ferrucci, Filomena and Gravino, Carmine and Sarro, Federica},
		journal={Information and Software Technology},
		pages={106308},
		year={2020},
		publisher={Elsevier}
	  }

	@article{sun2019automatic,
		title={Automatic Testing and Improvement of Machine Translation},
		author={Sun, Zeyu and Zhang, Jie M and Harman, Mark and Papadakis, Mike and Zhang, Lu},
		journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:1910.02688},
		year={2020}
	  }

	@article{al2019empirical,
		title={Empirical comparison of text-based mobile apps similarity measurement techniques},
		author={Al-Subaihin, Afnan and Sarro, Federica and Black, Sue and Capra, Licia},
		journal={Empirical Software Engineering},
		volume={24},
		number={6},
		pages={3290--3315},
		year={2019},
		publisher={Springer}
	  }

	@inproceedings{kechagia2019effective,
		title={Effective and efficient API misuse detection via exception propagation and search-based testing},
		author={Kechagia, Maria and Devroey, Xavier and Panichella, Annibale and Gousios, Georgios and van Deursen, Arie},
		booktitle={Proceedings of the 28th ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis},
		pages={192--203},
		year={2019}
	  }

	@inproceedings{sarro2019search,
		title={Search-Based Predictive Modelling for Software Engineering: How Far Have We Gone?},
		author={Sarro, Federica},
		booktitle={International Symposium on Search Based Software Engineering},
		pages={3--7},
		year={2019},
		organization={Springer}
	  }

	@inproceedings{colanzi2019review,
		title={A Review of Ten Years of the Symposium on Search-Based Software Engineering},
		author={Colanzi, Thelma Elita and Assun{\c{c}}{\~a}o, Wesley Klewerton Guez and Farah, Paulo Roberto and Vergilio, Silvia Regina and Guizzo, Giovani},
		booktitle={International Symposium on Search Based Software Engineering},
		pages={42--57},
		year={2019},
		organization={Springer}
	  }

	@inproceedings{jimenez2019importance,
		title={The importance of accounting for real-world labelling when predicting software vulnerabilities},
		author={Jimenez, Matthieu and Rwemalika, Renaud and Papadakis, Mike and Sarro, Federica and Le Traon, Yves and Harman, Mark},
		booktitle={Proceedings of the 2019 27th ACM Joint Meeting on European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering},
		pages={695--705},
		year={2019}
	  }

	@article{zhang2019study,
		title={A Study of Programming Languages and Their Bug Resolution Characteristics},
		author={Zhang, Jie and Li, Feng and Hao, Dan and Wang, Meng and Tang, Hao and Zhang, Lu and Harman, Mark},
		journal={IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering},
		year={2019},
		publisher={IEEE}
	  }

	@inproceedings{zhang2019empirical,
		title={An Empirical Comparison of Mutant Selection Assessment Metrics},
		author={Zhang, Jie M and Zhang, Lingming and Hao, Dan and Zhang, Lu and Harman, Mark},
		booktitle={2019 IEEE International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation Workshops (ICSTW)},
		pages={90--101},
		year={2019},
		organization={IEEE}
	  }

	@inproceedings{zhang2019pseudo,
		title={Do Pseudo Test Suites Lead to Inflated Correlation in Measuring Test Effectiveness?},
		author={Zhang, Jie M and Zhang, Lingming and Hao, Dan and Wang, Meng and Zhang, Lu},
		booktitle={2019 12th IEEE Conference on Software Testing, Validation and Verification (ICST)},
		pages={252--263},
		year={2019},
		organization={IEEE}
	  }

	@inproceedings{alshahwan2019some,
		title={Some challenges for software testing research (invited talk paper)},
		author={Alshahwan, Nadia and Ciancone, Andrea and Harman, Mark and Jia, Yue and Mao, Ke and Marginean, Alexandru and Mols, Alexander and Peleg, Hila and Sarro, Federica and Zorin, Ilya},
		booktitle={Proceedings of the 28th ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis},
		pages={1--3},
		year={2019}
	  }

@inproceedings{an:2019:fse,
  author    = {Gabin An and
               Aymeric Blot and
               Justyna Petke and
               Shin Yoo},
  title     = {{PyGGI 2.0}: Language Independent Genetic Improvement Framework},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 27th {ACM} Joint Meeting on European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering ({ESEC/FSE} 2019)},
  publisher = {{ACM}},
  pages     = {1100--1104},
  isbn      = {978-1-4503-5572-8},
  doi       = {10.1145/3338906.3341184},
  year      = {2019},
}
  

@inproceedings{blot:2019:gecco-comp,
  author    = {Aymeric Blot and
               Justyna Petke},
  title     = {On Adaptive Specialisation in Genetic Improvement},
  booktitle = {Companion Material Proceedings of the 14th Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference ({GECCO} 2019 companion)},
  publisher = {{ACM}},
  pages     = {1703--1704},
  doi       = {10.1145/3319619.3326839},
  year      = {2019},
}

@inproceedings{blot:2019:gi-icse,
  author    = {Aymeric Blot},
  title     = {Fuzzy Edit Sequences in Genetic Improvement},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Genetic Improvement ({GI@ICSE} 2019)},
  publisher = {{ACM}},
  pages     = {30--31},
  doi       = {10.1109/GI.2019.00016},
  year      = {2019},
}