Genetic Improvement @ ICSE 2020
This is an incremental report summarizing workshop discussions for researchers in genetic improvement and software engineering.
The paper reports on discussions at the Genetic Improvement workshop at ICSE 2020, covering topics like industry adoption, human factors, and benchmarks, and contrasts virtual conference approaches while speculating on the pandemic's impact on research.
Following Prof. Mark Harman of Facebook's keynote and formal presentations (which are recorded in the proceedings) there was a wide ranging discussion at the eighth international Genetic Improvement workshop, GI-2020 @ ICSE (held as part of the 42nd ACM/IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering on Friday 3rd July 2020). Topics included industry take up, human factors, explainabiloity (explainability, justifyability, exploitability) and GI benchmarks. We also contrast various recent online approaches (e.g. SBST 2020) to holding virtual computer science conferences and workshops via the WWW on the Internet without face-2-face interaction. Finally we speculate on how the Coronavirus Covid-19 Pandemic will affect research next year and into the future.