Evolving Program Improvement Collaborators

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (16)

Evaluating Automatic Program Repair Capabilities to Repair API Misuses

Author(s): Maria Kechagia, S. Mechtaev, F. Sarro, M. Harman
Published in: IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, 2021, ISSN 0098-5589
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
DOI: 10.1109/tse.2021.3067156

The Symposium on Search-Based Software Engineering: Past, Present and Future

Author(s): Thelma Elita Colanzi, Wesley K. G. Assunção. Silvia R. Vergilio, Paulo Roberto Farah, Giovani Guizzo
Published in: Information and Software Technology, 2020, ISSN 0950-5849
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.infsof.2020.106372

Sentinel: A Hyper-Heuristic for the Generation of Mutant Reduction Strategies

Author(s): Giovani Guizzo, Federica Sarro, Jens Krinke, Silvia Regina Vergilio
Published in: IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, 2020, Page(s) 1-1, ISSN 0098-5589
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
DOI: 10.1109/tse.2020.3002496

A Survey of Performance Optimization for Mobile Applications

Author(s): Max Hort, Maria Kechagia, Federica Sarro, and Mark Harman
Published in: IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, 2021, ISSN 0098-5589
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
DOI: 10.1109/tse.2021.3071193

Machine Learning Testing: Survey, Landscapes and Horizons

Author(s): Jie M. Zhang, Mark Harman, Lei Ma, Yang Liu
Published in: IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, 2019, Page(s) 1-1, ISSN 0098-5589
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
DOI: 10.1109/tse.2019.2962027

Multi-objective Software Effort Estimation: A Replication Study

Author(s): V. Tawosi, F. Sarro, A. Petrozziello, M. Harman
Published in: IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, 2021, ISSN 0098-5589
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
DOI: 10.1109/tse.2021.3083360

Diversifying Focused Testing for Unit Testing

Author(s): Menendez, H; Jahangirova, G; Sarro, F; Tonella, P; Clark, D
Published in: ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology, Volume 30Issue 4October 2021 Article No.:, 2021, Page(s) 44pp 1–24, ISSN 1557-7317
Publisher: Association for Computing Machinery
DOI: 10.1145/3461694

A Study of Bug Resolution Characteristics in Popular Programming Languages

Author(s): Jie Zhang, Feng Li, Dan Hao, Meng Wang, Hao Tang, Lu Zhang, Mark Harman
Published in: IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, 2019, Page(s) 1-1, ISSN 0098-5589
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
DOI: 10.1109/tse.2019.2961897

An Empirical Study of Cohesion and Coupling: Balancing Optimization and Disruption

Author(s): Matheus Paixao, Mark Harman, Yuanyuan Zhang, Yijun Yu
Published in: IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, 22/3, 2018, Page(s) 394-414, ISSN 1089-778X
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
DOI: 10.1109/tevc.2017.2691281

Genetic Improvement of Software: A Comprehensive Survey

Author(s): Justyna Petke, Saemundur O. Haraldsson, Mark Harman, William B. Langdon, David R. White, John R. Woodward
Published in: IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, 22/3, 2018, Page(s) 415-432, ISSN 1089-778X
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
DOI: 10.1109/tevc.2017.2693219

An Empirical Study of Meta- and Hyper-Heuristic Search for Multi-Objective Release Planning

Author(s): Yuanyuan Zhang, Mark Harman, Gabriela Ochoa, Guenther Ruhe, Sjaak Brinkkemper
Published in: ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology, 27/1, 2018, Page(s) 1-32, ISSN 1049-331X
Publisher: Association for Computing Machinary, Inc.
DOI: 10.1145/3196831

Specialising Software for Different Downstream Applications Using Genetic Improvement and Code Transplantation

Author(s): Justyna Petke, Mark Harman, William B. Langdon, Westley Weimer
Published in: IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, 44/6, 2018, Page(s) 574-594, ISSN 0098-5589
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
DOI: 10.1109/tse.2017.2702606

Detecting Trivial Mutant Equivalences via Compiler Optimisations

Author(s): Marinos Kintis, Mike Papadakis, Yue Jia, Nicos Malevris, Yves Le Traon, Mark Harman
Published in: IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, 44/4, 2018, Page(s) 308-333, ISSN 0098-5589
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
DOI: 10.1109/tse.2017.2684805

App Store Effects on Software Engineering Practices

Author(s): Afnan AlSubaihin, Federica Sarro, Sue Black, Licia Capra, Mark Harman
Published in: IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, 2019, Page(s) 1-1, ISSN 0098-5589
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
DOI: 10.1109/tse.2019.2891715

Machine Learning Testing: Survey, Landscapes and Horizons

Author(s): Jie M. Zhang, Mark Harman, Lei Ma, Yang Liu
Published in: IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, 2020, ISSN 1939-3520
Publisher: IEEE

Learning From Mistakes: Machine Learning Enhanced Human Expert Effort Estimates

Author(s): F. Sarro, R. Moussa, A. Petrozziello, Mark Harman
Published in: IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, 2020, ISSN 0098-5589
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
DOI: 10.1109/tse.2020.3040793

Conference proceedings (28)

FrUITeR: a framework for evaluating UI test reuse

Author(s): Yixue Zhao, Justin Chen, Adriana Sejfia, Marcelo Schmitt Laser, Jie Zhang, Federica Sarro, Mark Harman, Nenad Medvidovic
Published in: Proceedings of the 28th ACM Joint Meeting on European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering, 2020, Page(s) 1190-1201, ISBN 9781450370431
Publisher: ACM
DOI: 10.1145/3368089.3409708

Comparing Fuzzers on a Level Playing Field with FuzzBench

Author(s): Dario Asprone, Jonathan Metzman, Abhishek Arya, Giovani Guizzo, Federica Sarro
Published in: 15th IEEE International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation (ICST'22), 2022
Publisher: IEEE International Conference on Software Testing

The Effect of Offspring Population Size on NSGA-II: A Preliminary Study

Author(s): Max Hort, Federica Sarro
Published in: Proceedings of the 2021 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2021) (ACM), 2021, Page(s) 179-180
Publisher: Association for Computing Machinery
DOI: 10.1145/3449726.3459479

Fairea: A Model Behaviour Mutation Approach to Benchmarking Bias Mitigation Methods

Author(s): Max Hort, Jie Zhang, Federica Sarro, and Mark Harman
Published in: ESEC/FSE 2021: Proceedings of the 29th ACM Joint Meeting on European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering, 2021, Page(s) 994-1006
Publisher: Association for Computing Machinery
DOI: 10.1145/3468264.3468565

Did You Do Your Homework? Raising Awareness on Software Fairness and Discrimination

Author(s): Max Hort, Federica Sarro
Published in: 2021 36th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE), 2021
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
DOI: 10.1109/ase51524.2021.9678568

MuDelta: Delta-Oriented Mutation Testing at Commit Time

Author(s): Wei Ma; Thierry Titcheu Chekam; Mike Papadakis; Mark Harman
Published in: 43rd IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering - Software Engineering in Practice (ICSE-SEIP) / 43rd ACM/IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering - New Ideas and Emerging Results (ICSE-NIER), 2021
Publisher: International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE)
DOI: 10.1109/icse43902.2021.00086

Refining Fitness Functions for Search-Based Automated Program Repair: A Case Study with ARJA and ARJA-e

Author(s): Giovani Guizzo, Aymeric Blot, James Callan, Justyna Petke, Federica Sarro
Published in: 13th Symposium on Search-Based Software Engineering, SSBSE: International Symposium on Search Based Software Engineering, 2021
Publisher: SSBSE: International Symposium on Search Based Software Engineering
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-47106-8_13

Enhancing Genetic Improvement of Software with Regression Test Selection

Author(s): Giovani Guizzo, Justyna Petke, Federica Sarro, and Mark Harman
Published in: 2021 IEEE/ACM 43rd International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), 2021, ISBN 978-1-6654-0296-5
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
DOI: 10.1109/icse43902.2021.00120

Optimising word embeddings with search-based approaches

Author(s): Max Hort, Federica Sarro
Published in: Proceedings of the 2020 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference Companion, 2020, Page(s) 269-270, ISBN 9781450371278
Publisher: ACM
DOI: 10.1145/3377929.3390039

Green AI: Do Deep Learning Frameworks Have Different Costs?

Author(s): Georgiou, Stefanos; Kechagia, Maria; Sharma, Tushar; Sarro, Federica; Zou, Ying
Published in: International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), 2022
Publisher: ACM
DOI: 10.1145/3510003.3510221

A new approach to distribute MOEA pareto front computation

Author(s): Federica Sarro, Alessio Petrozziello, Dan-Qi He, Shin Yoo
Published in: Proceedings of the 2020 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference Companion, 2020, Page(s) 315-316, ISBN 9781450371278
Publisher: ACM
DOI: 10.1145/3377929.3390024

Investigating the Effectiveness of Clustering for Story Point Estimation

Author(s): Tawosi, Vali; Al-Subaihin, Afnan; Sarro, Federica
Published in: 29th IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering, 2022
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
DOI: 10.1109/saner2022.2022.00101

'Ignorance and Prejudice' in Software Fairness

Author(s): Jie Zhang, Mark Harman
Published in: (Proceedings) 43th International Conference on Software Engineering, 2021, ISSN 1558-1225
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
DOI: 10.1109/icse43902.2021.00129

"Are mutants really natural? - a study on how ""naturalness"" helps mutant selection"

Author(s): Matthieu Jimenez, Thiery Titcheu Checkam, Maxime Cordy, Mike Papadakis, Marinos Kintis, Yves Le Traon, Mark Harman
Published in: Proceedings of the 12th ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement - ESEM '18, 2018, Page(s) 1-10, ISBN 9781-450358231
Publisher: ACM Press
DOI: 10.1145/3239235.3240500

Customer Rating Reactions Can Be Predicted Purely using App Features

Author(s): Federica Sarro, Mark Harman, Yue Jia, Yuanyuan Zhang
Published in: 2018 IEEE 26th International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE), 2018, Page(s) 76-87, ISBN 978-1-5386-7418-5
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/re.2018.00018

OASIs: oracle assessment and improvement tool

Author(s): Gunel Jahangirova, David Clark, Mark Harman, Paolo Tonella
Published in: Proceedings of the 27th ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis - ISSTA 2018, 2018, Page(s) 368-371, ISBN 9781-450356992
Publisher: ACM Press
DOI: 10.1145/3213846.3229503

From Start-ups to Scale-ups: Opportunities and Open Problems for Static and Dynamic Program Analysis

Author(s): Mark Harman, Peter O'Hearn
Published in: 2018 IEEE 18th International Working Conference on Source Code Analysis and Manipulation (SCAM), 2018, Page(s) 1-23, ISBN 978-1-5386-8290-6
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/scam.2018.00009

CROP - linking code reviews to source code changes

Author(s): Matheus Paixao, Jens Krinke, Donggyun Han, Mark Harman
Published in: Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories - MSR '18, 2018, Page(s) 46-49, ISBN 9781-450357166
Publisher: ACM Press
DOI: 10.1145/3196398.3196466

The importance of accounting for real-world labelling when predicting software vulnerabilities

Author(s): Matthieu Jimenez, Renaud Rwemalika, Mike Papadakis, Federica Sarro, Yves Le Traon, Mark Harman
Published in: Proceedings of the 2019 27th ACM Joint Meeting on European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering - ESEC/FSE 2019, 2019, Page(s) 695-705, ISBN 9781-450355728
Publisher: ACM Press
DOI: 10.1145/3338906.3338941

Automatic Testing and Improvement of Machine Translation

Author(s): Jie M. Zhang, Zeyu Sun, Mark Harman, Mike Papadakis, Lu Zhang
Published in: 42nd International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2020), 2020
Publisher: ACM

An Empirical Comparison of Mutant Selection Assessment Metrics

Author(s): Jie M Zhang, Lingming Zhang, Dan Hao, Lu Zhang, Mark Harman
Published in: 2019 IEEE International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation Workshops (Mutation 2019), 2019, ISBN 978-1-7281-0888-9
Publisher: IEEE

Do Pseudo Test Suites Lead to Inflated Correlation in Measuring Test Effectiveness?

Author(s): Jie M. Zhang, Lingming Zhang, Dan Hao, Meng Wang, Lu Zhang
Published in: 2019 12th IEEE Conference on Software Testing, Validation and Verification (ICST), 2019, Page(s) 252-263, ISBN 978-1-7281-1736-2
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/icst.2019.00033

Some challenges for software testing research (invited talk paper)

Author(s): Nadia Alshahwan, Ilya Zorin, Andrea Ciancone, Mark Harman, Yue Jia, Ke Mao, Alexandru Marginean, Alexander Mols, Hila Peleg, Federica Sarro
Published in: Proceedings of the 28th ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis - ISSTA 2019, 2019, Page(s) 1-3, ISBN 9781-450362245
Publisher: ACM Press
DOI: 10.1145/3293882.3338991

Privileged and Unprivileged Groups: An Empirical Study on the Impact of the Age Attribute on Fairness

Author(s): Max Hort, Federica Sarro
Published in: International Workshop on Equitable Data and Technology (FairWare ’22 ), 2022
Publisher: FairWare
DOI: 10.1145/3524491.3527308

Behavioural and Structural Imitation Models in Facebook’s WW Simulation System

Author(s): J. Ahlgren; K. Bojarczuk; I. Dvortsova; M. Harman; R. Hatout; M. Lomeli; E. Meijer; S. Sapora
Published in: International Workshop on Realizing Artificial Intelligence Synergies in Software Engineering (RAISE), 2021
Publisher: Facebook

A Versatile Dataset of Agile Open Source Software Projects

Author(s): Vali Tawosi, Afnan Al-Subaihin, Rebecca Moussa, Federica Sarro
Published in: 19th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR’22), 2022
Publisher: MSR
DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2202.00979

Measurement Challenges for Cyber Cyber Digital Twins: Experiences from the Deployment of Facebook’s WW Simulation System

Author(s): K. Bojarczuk; N. Gucevska; S. Lucas; I. Dvortsova; M. Harman; E. Meijer; S. Sapora; J. George; M. Lomeli; R. Rojas
Published in: ESEM '21: Proceedings of the 15th ACM / IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement (ESEM), Article No 2 Pages 1–10, 2021
Publisher: ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement (ESEM)
DOI: 10.1145/3475716.3484196

Cost measures matter for mutation testing study validity

Author(s): Giovani Guizzo, Federica Sarro, Mark Harman
Published in: Proceedings of the 28th ACM Joint Meeting on European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering, 2020, Page(s) 1127-1139, ISBN 9781450370431
Publisher: ACM
DOI: 10.1145/3368089.3409742

Book chapters (4)

Impact of Test Suite Coverage on Overfitting in Genetic Improvement of Software

Author(s): Mingyi Lim, Giovani Guizzo, Justyna Petke
Published in: Search-Based Software Engineering - 12th International Symposium, SSBSE 2020, Bari, Italy, October 7–8, 2020, Proceedings, 12420, 2020, Page(s) 188-203, ISBN 978-3-030-59761-0
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-59762-7_14

Deploying Search Based Software Engineering with Sapienz at Facebook

Author(s): Nadia Alshahwan, Xinbo Gao, Mark Harman, Yue Jia, Ke Mao, Alexander Mols, Taijin Tei, Ilya Zorin
Published in: Search-Based Software Engineering - 10th International Symposium, SSBSE 2018, Montpellier, France, September 8-9, 2018, Proceedings, 11036, 2018, Page(s) 3-45, ISBN 978-3-319-99240-2
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-99241-9_1

We Need a Testability Transformation Semantics

Author(s): Mark Harman
Published in: Software Engineering and Formal Methods - 16th International Conference, SEFM 2018, Held as Part of STAF 2018, Toulouse, France, June 27–29, 2018, Proceedings, 10886, 2018, Page(s) 3-17, ISBN 978-3-319-92969-9
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-92970-5_1

A Review of Ten Years of the Symposium on Search-Based Software Engineering

Author(s): Thelma Elita Colanzi, Wesley Klewerton Guez Assunção, Paulo Roberto Farah, Silvia Regina Vergilio, Giovani Guizzo
Published in: Search-Based Software Engineering - 11th International Symposium, SSBSE 2019, Tallinn, Estonia, August 31 – September 1, 2019, Proceedings, 11664, 2019, Page(s) 42-57, ISBN 978-3-030-27454-2
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-27455-9_4