[DMANET] PhD in Search Based Optimisation of Software Testing

Visa Europe and UCL are offering a PhD in Search Based Optimisation of Software Testing
University College London is offering a fully funded student bursary in Search Based Optimisation of Software Testing to start as soon as possible. The student will undertake a UCL PhD, the focus of which will be having a direct impact on improving Visa software systems. It will be a chance for the student to work collaboratively in both academic and industrial sites, developing innovative techniques and evaluating them on real-world systems at Visa.
This impact studentship will recruit a talented and dedicated PhD student to work closely with Visa (at their Paddington site) under the supervision of Mark Harman and Earl Barr (at UCL), on the development and evaluation of advanced test optimisation techniques. Dr. Federica Sarro will also join the supervisor team, providing expertise on full prediction and predictive modelling. You will also have an industrial supervisor, Paul Baker, of Visa Europe.
The primary research question is:
"how can we best develop optimisation processes and techniques to develop effective and efficient testing of web-based systems?"
The studentship is funded 50% by UCL and 50% by Visa, demonstrating the commitment of each partner to this project. The student will also be part of the large program grant dynamic adaptive automated software engineering (DAASE), A significant investment by the engineering and physical sciences research Council of the United Kingdom in the area of search based software engineering. More details on the project are available at http://daase.cs.ucl.ac.uk/. The student to whom this studentship bursary is awarded will be situated in the CREST centre, which is part of the Software Systems, Engineering group (SSE) within the Department of Computer Science at UCL. http://crest.cs.ucl.ac.uk/about/
Applications close 5th January 2015
Interviews will take place in the week of the 2nd – 5th of February 2015
For more information and to apply: http://crest.cs.ucl.ac.uk/phd_opportunities/phdpositions/

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Dr. Federica Sarro
Research Associate, CREST centre
Department of Computer Science
University College London
Malet Place, London, WC1E 6BT, UK
Tel: +44 (0) 2076737289
Office: 4.17 (249)
E-mail: f.sarro@ucl.ac.uk<mailto:f.sarro@ucl.ac.uk>
Web: http://www0.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/F.Sarro/

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