?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=Pidgin+Crasher%3A+Searching+for+Minimised+Crashing+GUI+Event+Sequences&rft.creator=Dan%2C+H&rft.creator=Harman%2C+M&rft.creator=Krinke%2C+J&rft.creator=Li%2C+L&rft.creator=Marginean%2C+A&rft.creator=Wu%2C+F&rft.description=We+present+a+search+based+testing+system+that+automatically+explores+the+space+of+all+possible+GUI+event+interleavings.+Search+guides+our+system+to+novel+crashing+sequences+using+Levenshtein+distance+and+minimises+the+resulting+fault-revealing+UI+sequences+in+a+post-processing+hill+climb.+We+report+on+the+application+of+our+system+to+the+SSBSE+2014+challenge+program%2C+Pidgin.+Overall%2C+our+Pidgin+Crasher+found+20+different+events+that+caused+2+distinct+kinds+of+bugs%2C+while+the+event+sequences+that+caused+them+were+reduced+by+84%25+on+average+using+our+minimisation+post+processor.&rft.publisher=Springer+International&rft.date=2014&rft.type=Proceedings+paper&rft.language=eng&rft.source=+++++In%3A++Search-Based+Software+Engineering%3A+Proceedings+of+the+6th+Symposium+on+Search-Based+Software+Engineering.++(pp.+pp.+253-258).++Springer+International%3A+Switzerland.+(2014)+++++&rft.format=application%2Fpdf&rft.identifier=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscovery.ucl.ac.uk%2Fid%2Feprint%2F1433998%2F2%2Fpidgincrusher14.pdf&rft.identifier=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscovery.ucl.ac.uk%2Fid%2Feprint%2F1433998%2F&rft.rights=open