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As a relatively new area of research, SBSE does not yet experience broad industry acceptance.
Successful applications of SBSE in the industry can mostly be found within software testing, where the capability to automatically generate random test inputs for uncovering bugs at a big scale is attractive to companies. In 2017, [[Facebook]] acquired the software startup Majicke Limited that developed Sapienz, a search-based bug finding app. <ref>{{cite web
|url = https://venturebeat.com/2018/12/30/sapienz-facebooks-push-to-automate-software-testing/
|title = Sapienz: Facebook’s push to automate software testing
|date = 30 December 2018
|website = The Shape of Code
|accessdate = 29 September 2020
}}</ref>
In other application scenarios, software engineers may be reluctant to adopt tools over which they have little control or that generate solutions that are unlike those that humans produce.<ref>
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