Search Based Software Engineering [electronic resource] : 5th International Symposium, SSBSE 2013, St. Petersburg, Russia, August 24-26, 2013. Proceedings / edited by Günther Ruhe, Yuanyuan Zhang.

Keynote Addresses -- Advances in Automated Program Repair and a Call to Arms -- Some Recent Work on Multi-objective Approaches to Search-Based Software Engineering -- Tutorial -- Cloud Computing and SBSE.-Full Papers -- On the Application of the Multi-Evolutionary and Coupling-Based -- Approach with Different Aspect-Class Integration Testing Strategies -- An Experimental Study on Incremental Search-Based Software Engineering -- Competitive Coevolutionary Code-Smells Detection -- A Multi-objective Genetic Algorithm to Rank State-Based Test Cases -- Validating Code-Level Behavior of Dynamic Adaptive Systems in the Face of Uncertainty -- Model Refactoring Using Interactive Genetic Algorithm -- A Fine-Grained Parallel Multi-objective Test Case Prioritization on GPU -- Search-Based Refactoring Detection Using Software Metrics Variation -- Automated Model-in-the-Loop Testing of Continuous Controllers Using Search -- Predicting Regression Test Failures Using Genetic Algorithm-Selected Dynamic Performance Analysis Metrics -- A Recoverable Robust Approach for the Next Release Problem -- A Systematic Review of Software Requirements Selection and Prioritization Using SBSE Approache -- Regression Testing for Model Transformations: A Multi-objective Approach -- Provably Optimal and Human-Competitive Results in SBSE for Spectrum Based Fault Localisation -- Short Papers -- On the Synergy between Search-Based and Search-Driven Software Engineering -- Preference-Based Many-Objective Evolutionary Testing Generates Harder Test Cases for Autonomous Agents -- Efficient Subdomains for Random Testing -- Applying Genetic Improvement to MiniSAT -- Using Contracts to Guide the Search-Based Verification of Concurrent Programs -- Planning Global Software Development Projects Using Genetic Algorithms -- Challenge Track Papers -- What Can a Big Program Teach Us about Optimization? -- eCrash: An Empirical Study on the Apache Ant Project -- Graduate Track Papers -- A Multi-objective Genetic Algorithm for Generating Test Suites from Extended Finite State Machines -- An Approach to Test Set Generation for Pair-Wise Testing Using Genetic Algorithms -- Generation of Tests for Programming Challenge Tasks Using Helper-Objectives -- The Emergence of Useful Bias in Self-focusing Genetic Programming for Software Optimisation -- Exploring Optimal Service Compositions in Highly Heterogeneous and Dynamic Service-Based Systems -- Applying Search in an Automatic Contract-Based Testing Tool.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Fifth International Symposium on Search-Based Software Engineering, SSBSE 2013, held in St. Petersburg, Russia. The 14 revised full papers, 6 revised short papers, and 6 papers of the graduate track presented together with 2 keynotes, 2 challenge track papers and 1 tutorial paper were carefully reviewed and selected from 50 initial submissions. Search Based Software Engineering (SBSE) studies the application of meta-heuristic optimization techniques to various software engineering problems, ranging from requirements engineering to software testing and maintenance.