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One of the earliest attempts in applying [[optimization]] to a [[software engineering]] problem, was reported by Miller and Spooner in the area of software testing in 1976 <ref>W. Miller and D. L. Spooner, Automatic Generation of Floating-Point Test Data, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, Vol. 2, No. 3, pp. 223-226 (1976)</ref>. Xanthakis et al. <ref>S. Xanthakis, C. Ellis, C. Skourlas, A. Le Gall, S. Katsikas and K. Karapoulios, Application of genetic algorithms to software testing, In Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Software Engineering and its Applications, pp. 625-636 (1992)</ref> apply for the first time a search technique to a [[software engineering]] problem in 1992. The term SBSE was first used in 2001 by Harman and Jones<ref>M. Harman and B. F. Jones, Search-based software engineering, Information & Software Technology, Vol. 43, No. 14, pp. 833-839 (2001)</ref>.