avmframework-paper

This repository contains the LaTeX source code and additional resources for a research paper that was accepted for publication at the 8th International Symposium on Search Based Software Engineering (SSBSE 2016). The source code of the paper uses the LaTeX style files provided by the organizers of the symposium and a wide variety of other packages that are normally standard with a modern LaTeX distribution such a TeXLive 2015.

You are invited to use this repository as a means for learning more about preparing papers in the field of search-based software engineering and as a way to investigate the results and writing in our paper. If you find this repository useful, could we trouble you to star this repository and then acknowledge it in your own research efforts? If you would like to learn more about research in the field of search-based software engineering, then you can check out gkapfham/research-bibliography and AVMf/avm-bibliography. If you would like to download the tool used to conduct the experiments presented in this paper, then please visit the AVMf/avmf repository.

Here is a reference for the paper:

AVMf: An Open-Source Framework and Implementation of the Alternating Variable Method. Phil McMinn and Gregory M. Kapfhammer. International Symposium on Search-Based Software Engineering (SSBSE 2016)

Installation Instructions

You can type the following command if you want to clone this repository:

git clone https://github.com/AVMf/avmframework-paper.git

Compiling the Paper

If you want to compile the paper to a PDF, then you should type the following commands.

cd avmframework-paper
pdflatex avmf.tex
bibtex avmf.aux
pdflatex avmf.tex
pdflatex avmf.tex

Please note that this has been tested on an Ubuntu 16.04 workstation running a recent version of LaTeX that was manually installed using the TeXLive installer. It is also worth noting that you can also compile the paper using other LaTeX development tools, such as latexmk. If you are unable to compile the paper with your development tools and your execution environment, then please open a new issue and we will attempt to resolve your concerns.