This proposal seeks relatively modest funding to provide partial financial support for the first international Symposium on Search Based Software Engineering (SBSE).This symposium will found a series of annual international events. EPSRC funding is sought to support the first of these, to be held in the UK. The UK has outstanding international leadership in this area of research. The PI for the project, Mark Harman, has extensive experience in successful management of similar events and has a long track record of publications and collaborations on SBSE with both industry and academia.

Testing involves examining the behaviour of a system in order to discover potential faults. The problem of determining the desired correct behaviour for a given input is called the Oracle Problem. Since manual testing is expensive and time consuming there has been a great deal of work on automation and part automation of Software Testing. Unfortunately, it is often impossible to fully automate the process of determining whether the system behaves correctly. This must be performed by a human, and the cost of the effort expended is referred to as the Human Oracle Cost.RE-COST will develop Search-Based Optimisation techniques to attack the Human Oracle Cost problem quantitatively and qualitatively. The quantitative approach will develop methods and algorithms to both reduce the number of test cases and the evaluation effort per test case. The qualitative approach will develop methods and algorithms that will reduce test case cognition time.The RE-COST project seeks to transform the way that researchers and practitioners think about the problem of Software Test Data Generation. This has the potential to provide a breakthrough in Software Testing, dramatically increasing real world industrial uptake of automated techniques for Software Test Data Generation.

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This proposal is a request for funding as partial support for holding the an International Workshop on Software Testing in the UK called Testing Academia & Industrial Conference - Practice And Research Techniques (TAIC PART 2007).The workshop will combine industrial and academic participation to strengthen and develop UK leadership in the area of software testing. This event builds upon previous smaller workshops on testing held in the UK. Although it remains a workshop in character, the event's title includes the word `conference' to allowfor future growth. These events have steadily built a strong community of researchers and industrialists and the time is now ripe for this event to mature into a large more ambitious event. Funding is sought from EPSRC to support the event. This funding will be used tosupport the costs of the meeting. As a sign of their serious commitment to this venture, several of the industrial partners have already offered to support the event with a modest (but useful) level of sponsorship.

This proposal is a request for funding as partial support for holding the an International Workshop on Software Testing in the UK called Testing Academia \& Industrial Conference - Practice And Research Techniques (TAIC PART).The workshop will combine industrial and academic participation to strengthen and develop UK leadership in the area of software testing.This event builds upon previous smaller workshops on testing held in the UK. Although it remains a workshop in character, the event's title includes the word `conference' to allowfor future growth.These events have steadily built a strong community of researchers and industrialists and the timeis now ripe for this event to mature into a large more ambitious event. In order to achieve this growth, funding is sought from EPSRC to support the event. This funding will be used tosupport the costs of the meeting. As a sign of their serious commitment to this venture, several of the industrial partners haveoffered to support the event with a modest (but useful) level of sponsorship.