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BRIEF HISTORY

One of the earliest attempts in applying Optimization to a Software Engineering problem was reported by Miller and Spooner in 1976 in the area of software testingW. Miller and D. L. Spooner, Automatic Generation of Floating-Point Test Data, ''IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering'', Vol. 2, No. 3, pp. 223-226 (1976). Xanthakis et al. S. Xanthakis, C. Ellis, C. Skourlas, A. Le Gall, S. Katsikas and K. Karapoulios, Application of genetic algorithms to software testing, In ''Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Software Engineering and its Applications'', pp. 625-636 (1992) apply for the first time a search technique to a Software Engineering problem in 1992. The term SBSE was first used in 2001 by Harman and JonesM. Harman and B. F. Jones, Search-based software engineering, ''Information & Software Technology'', Vol. 43, No. 14, pp. 833-839 (2001).


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E. Alba and F. Chicano, Software Project Management with GAs, ''Information Sciences'', Vol. 177, pp. 2380-2401 (2007) and Software Maintenance G. Antoniol, M. Di Penta and M. Harman, Search-Based Techniques Applied to Optimization of Project Planning for a Massive Maintenance Project, In ''Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance'', pp. 240-249 (2005). In his FoSE paperM. Harman, The Current State and Future of Search Based Software Engineering, In ''Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2007)'', 20-26 May, Minneapolis, USA (2007), Harman identifies the current state of SBSE and highlights future trends in this approach to Software Engineering .


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