- author = "Mark Harman and Yue Jia and Jens Krinke and W. B. Langdon and Justyna Petke and Yuanyuan Zhang",
- title = "Search based software engineering for software product line engineering: a survey and directions for future work",
- booktitle = "18th International Software Product Line, SPLC 2014",
- year = "2014",
- pages = "5--18",
- address = "Florence, Italy",
- month = sep # " 15-19",
- note = "Invited keynote",
- keywords = "genetic algorithms, genetic programming, genetic improvement, SBSE, Software Engineering, SPL, Program Synthesis",
- isbn13 = "978-1-4503-2740-4",
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URL = "
http://www0.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/m.harman/splc14.pdf",
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DOI = "
doi:10.1145/2648511.2648513",
- size = "14 pages",
- abstract = "This paper presents a survey of work on Search Based Software Engineering (SBSE) for Software Product Lines (SPLs). We have attempted to be comprehensive, in the sense that we have sought to include all papers that apply computational search techniques to problems in software product line engineering. Having surveyed the recent explosion in SBSE for SPL research activity, we highlight some directions for future work. We focus on suggestions for the development of recent advances in genetic improvement, showing how these might be exploited by SPL researchers and practitioners: Genetic improvement may grow new products with new functional and non-functional features and graft these into SPLs. It may also merge and parametrise multiple branches to cope with SPL branchmania.",
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notes = "The paper was written to accompany the keynote at the
15th Software Product Line Conference (SPLC 2014),
given by Mark Harman, but it reflects the joint work of
all the authors.
Also known as \cite{Harman:2014:SBS:2648511.2648513}",
