Getting results from search-based approaches to software engineering

Like other engineering disciplines, software engineering is typically concerned with near optimal solutions or those which fall within a specified applicable tolerance. More recently, search-based techniques have started to find application in software engineering problem domains. This area of search-based software engineering has its origins in work on search-based testing, which began in the mid 1990s. Already, search-based solutions have been applied to software engineering problems right through the development life cycle.