SSBSE 2026
Sun 5 - Mon 6 July 2026 Montreal, Canada
co-located with FSE 2026

SSBSE

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Sun 5 - Mon 6 July 2026 Montreal, Canada

SSBSE 2026 with FSE 2026

Welcome message Welcome to the website of the 18th Symposium on Search-Based Software Engineering 2026 (SSBSE 2026). SSBSE 2026 will take place in Montréal, Canada, co-located with FSE 2026. Search-based Software Engineering (SBSE) is a research area focused on the formulation of software engineering problems as search problems, and the subsequent use of complex heuristic techniques to attain optimal solutions to ...

Sun 16 Nov 2025 Seoul, South Korea

SSBSE 2025 with ASE 2025

Best Paper Award The winners of the SSBSE 2025 best paper award are as follows: Didier Ishimwe and Thanhvu Nguyen for LLM-Guided Fuzzing for Pathological Input Generation Antony Bartlett, Cynthia Liem and Annibale Panichella for The Pursuit of Diversity: Multi-Objective Testing of Deep Reinforcement Learning Agents Congratulations for your achievements! Participant Survey https://forms.gle/eDEvT29kVLNXaLDk8 SSB ...

Mon 15 Jul 2024 Porto de Galinhas, Brazil, Brazil

SSBSE 2024 with FSE 2024

Join us live on our Twitch stream Starting Monday 15th of July @9:00am BRT (2pm CEST) here Conference proceedings The conference proceedings are available here (until the end of August, 2024). The online registration is now open! SSBSE uses FSE’s registration system. Click here for registration. Welcome to the website of the Symposium on Search-Based Software Engineering 2024. SSBSE 2024 will take place on Jul ...

Fri 8 Dec 2023 San Francisco, California, United States

SSBSE 2023 with ESEC/FSE 2023

Welcome to the website of the Symposium on Search-Based Software Engineering (SSBSE) 2023. We are working hard to fill the website with all related information. Please check back soon! We are planning to have the following tracks: Main research Replications and Negative Results (RENE) / New Ideas and Emerging Results (NIER) SBSE Challenge Hot off the Press (HOP) SSBSE 2023 will take place December 8th in San Fr ...

Thu 17 - Fri 18 November 2022 Singapore

SSBSE 2022 with ESEC/FSE 2022

Welcome to the 14th Symposium on Search-Based Software Engineering! Search-based Software Engineering (SBSE) is a research area focused on the formulation of software engineering problems as search problems, and the subsequent use of complex heuristic techniques to attain optimal solutions to such problems. A wealth of engineering challenges – from test generation, to design refactoring, to process organization – ...

Mon 11 - Tue 12 October 2021

SSBSE 2021 with ESEM 2021

Welcome to the 13th Symposium on Search-Based Software Engineering! Search-based Software Engineering (SBSE) is a research area focused on the formulation of software engineering problems as search problems, and the subsequent use of complex heuristic techniques to attain optimal solutions to such problems. A wealth of engineering challenges – from test generation, to design refactoring, to process organization – ...

Organizing Committee (SSBSE 2026)