Search Based Software Engineering: A Review from the Brazilian Symposium on Software Engineering

Search Based Software Engineering (SBSE) is the field of software engineering research and practice that applies search based techniques to solve different Software Engineering problems. SBSE contributes to reduce efforts and costs associated to software development since the solutions found by search techniques satisfy constraints that are usually in conflict and, in general, are very difficult to be obtained for software engineers. The field is emerging in Brazil, the number of published works and research groups have significantly increased in the last three years. The goal of this paper is to divulge SBSE, serving as a reference to this novel field and contributing to its consolidation in Brazil. The paper introduces SBSE concerns and provides a review of works produced by the Brazilian community, related to the Brazilian Symposium on Software Engineering (SBES), discussing trends, challenges, and open research problems for this emergent area.