The Human Competitiveness of Search Based Software Engineering
Jerffeson Souza, Camila Loiola Brito Maia, Fabrício Gomes de Freitas, Daniel Pinto Coutinho · 2010
This paper reports a comprehensive experimental study regarding the human competitiveness of search based software engineering (SBSE). The experiments were performed over four well-known SBSE problem formulations: next release problem, multi-objective next release problem, workgroup formation problem and the multi-objective test case selection problem. For each of these problems, two instances, with increasing sizes, were synthetically generated and solved by both metaheuristics and human subjects. A total of 63 professional software engineers participated in the experiment by solving some or all problem instances, producing together 128 responses. The comparison analysis strongly suggests that the results generated by search based software engineering can be said to be human competitive.