Search-Based Software Engineering 15th International Symposium, SSBSE 2023, San Francisco, CA, USA, December 8, 2023, Proceedings

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 15th International Symposium on Search-Based Software Engineering, SSBSE 2023, which took place in San Francisco, CA, USA, during December 8, 2023.

Research Track.- Generating Android Tests using Novelty Search.- Expound: A Black-box Approach for Generating Diversity-Driven Adversarial Examples.- Developer Views on Software Carbon Footprint and its Potential for Automated Reduction.- Search-Based Mock Generation of External Web Service Interactions.- Exploring Genetic Improvement of the Carbon Footprint of Web Pages.- A Novel Mutation Operator for Search-based Test Case Selection.- Challenge Track.- StableYolo: Optimizing Image Generation for Large Language Models.- Improving the Readability of Generated Tests Using GPT-4 and ChatGPT Code Interpreter.- Evaluating Explanations for Software Patches Generated by Large Language Models.- Enhancing Genetic Improvement Mutations Using Large Language Models.- SearchGEM5: Towards Reliable gem5 with Search Based Software Testing and Large Language Models.- RENE/NIER Track.- Multi-Objective Black-box Test Case Prioritization based on WordNet Distances.- On the Impact of Tool Evolution and Case Study Size on SBSE Experiments: A Replicated Study with EvoMaster.- Search-based Optimisation of LLM Learning Shots for Story Point Estimation.