SBST 2013 - 6th International Workshop on Search-Based Software Testing (SBST 2013)

Search-Based Software Testing (SBST) applies metaheuristic search techniques--such as hill climbing, simulated annealing, and genetic algorithms--to automate aspects of the software testing process. For example, SBST is used to generate test data, prioritize test cases, minimize test suites, verify software models, test service-orientated architectures, construct test suites for interaction testing, and validate real-time properties.
The objectives of the workshop are to bring together researchers and industrial practitioners from these different SBST domains to share experience and provide direction for future research, and to encourage the use of SBST techniques in novel aspects of software testing.
This year--in addition to long papers on original research and short papers describing novel ideas--we invite two new types of submissions: papers discussing the importance of SBST results published within the last year, and entries to a competition for tools (both SBST and non-SBST) that perform Java unit testing at the class level.