Table 2 The 15 most cited SBSE works, ordered by Google Scholar

(Barreto et al. 2008)

Staffing a Software Project: a Constraint Satisfaction and Optimization-based Approach

Management

72

(Bueno and Jino 2002)

Automatic Test Data Generation for Program Paths using Genetic Algorithms

Testing

49

(Oliveira et al. 2010)

GA-based Method for Feature Selection and Parameters Optimization for Machine Learning Regression applied to Software Effort Estimation

Management

47

(Bueno and Jino 2000)

Identification of Potentially Infeasible Program Paths by Monitoring the Search for Test Data

Testing

39

(Costa et al. 2005)

Modeling Software Reliability Growth with Genetic Programming

Testing

36

(Harman et al. 2012a)

Search Based Software Engineering: Techniques, Taxonomy, Tutorial

Survey

32

(Braz and Vergilio 2004)

Using Fuzzy Theory for Effort Estimation of Object-Oriented Software

Management

28

(Costa et al. 2007)

Exploring Genetic Programming and Boosting Techniques to Model Software

Testing

26

(Braga et al. 2008)

A GA-Based Feature Selection and Parameters Optimization for Support Vector Regression Applied to Software Effort Estimation

Management

24

(Costa et al. 2010)

A Genetic Programming Approach for Software Reliability Modeling

Other Subjects

20

(de Carvalho et al. 2010)

A Symbolic Fault-Prediction Model Based on Multiobjective Particle Swarm Optimization

Testing

20

(Emer and Vergilio 2003)

Selection and Evaluation of Test Data Based on Genetic Programming

Testing

18

(Souza et al. 2010)

The Human Competitiveness of Search Based Software Engineering

Other Subjects

18

(Bueno et al. 2007)

Improving Random Test Sets using the Diversity Oriented Test Data Generation

Testing

16

(Freitas and Souza 2011)

Ten Years of Search Based Software Engineering: A Bibliometric Analysis

Survey

16