The CREST Open Workshop programme consists of a series of informal workshops organised by the CREST Centre (Centre for Research on Evolution Search & Testing) at UCL.
The aim of this regular workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners working on a topic with a focus on discussion and interaction and with no formal proceedings. We create the program by invitation and then issue a call of participation. Outstanding researchers from all over the world are invited to present their original work and the workshops attract a high level of active international participation
Upcoming COWs
Past COWs
Find more of our past Crest Open Workshops (COW) on our old website or from the links below, where you can access slides and videos of the past talks:
The 62nd CREST Open Workshop - Automated Program Repair
Date: 20th and 21st January 2020
Venue: Friends House, 173-177 Euston Road, London NW1 2BJ
The 61st CREST Open Workshop - Statistics, Learning, Genetic Improvement and Testing for Programs
Date: 21st and 22nd October 2019
Venue: Friends House, 173-177 Euston Road, London NW1 2BJ
The 60th CREST Open Workshop - Those were the DAASE
Date: 3rd and 4th December 2018
Venue: Friends House, 173-177 Euston Road, London NW1 2BJ
The 59th CREST Open Workshop - Multi-language Software Analysis
Date: 26th and 27th March 2018
Venue: Friends House, 173-177 Euston Road, London NW1 2BJ
The 58th CREST Open Workshop - Automating Programmers’ Programming Experiments for Analytic Result Reporting in Code Review and Continuous Integration
Date: 26th and 27th February 2018
Venue: Friends House, 173-177 Euston Road, London NW1 2BJ
The 57th CREST Open Workshop - Information Theory and Software Testing
Date: 29th and 30th January 2018
Venue: Friends House, 173-177 Euston Road, London NW1 2BJ
The 56th CREST Open Workshop - Code Review and Continuous Inspection/Integration
Date: 27th and 28th November 2017
Venue: Friends House, 173-177 Euston Road, London NW1 2BJ
The 55th CREST Open Workshop - Bimodal Program Analysis
Date: 30th and 31st October 2017
Venue: Friends House, 173-177 Euston Road, London NW1 2BJ
The 54th CREST Open Workshop - The Best of CREST 2016-2017
Date: 25th September 2017
Venue: Room 101, Clore Management Center, Torrington Square, London, WC1E 7JL
The 53rd CREST Open Workshop - SSBSE 2017 Challenge: Collaborative Jam Session
Date: 24th and 25th April 2017
Venue: UCL
The 52nd CREST Open Workshop - Predictive Models in Software Engineering: Measures, Models and Benchmarks
Date: 27th and 28th March 2017
Venue: G01, 66-72 Gower Street, University College London, WC1E 6EA
The 51st CREST Open Workshop - Tutorial on Landscape Analysis
Date: 27 and 28 February 2017
Venue: William Penn Suite, Friends House, 173-177 Euston Rd, London NW1 2BJ
The 50th CREST Open Workshop - Genetic Improvement
Date: 30 and 31 January 2017
Venue: William Penn Suite, Friends House, 173-177 Euston Rd, London NW1 2BJ
The 49th CREST Open Workshop - Software Architecture and Technical Debt
Date: 28 and 29 November 2016
Venue: Friends House, 173-177 Euston Rd, London NW1 2BJ
The 48th CREST Open Workshop - Tutorial on Causal Impact
Date: 24th and 25th October 2016
Venue: G01, 66-72 Gower Street, University College London, WC1E 6EA
The 47th CREST Open Workshop - CREST 10th Anniversary
Date: 7th September 2016
Venue: G01, 66-72 Gower Street, London, WC1E 6EA
The 46th CREST Open Workshop - SSBSE 2016 Challenge: Collaborative Jam Session
Date: 6th and 7th April 2016
Venue: Room 101, Birkbeck University, 30 Russell Square, WC1B
The 45th CREST Open workshop - Genetic Improvement
Date: 25th and 26th January 2016
Venue: Wellcome Collection
The 44th CREST Open Workshop - Predictive Modelling for Software Engineering
Date: 23rd and 24th November 2015
Venue: G01, 66-72 Gower Street, London, WC1E 6EA
The 43rd CREST Open Workshop - Hyper-Heuristics for Software Engineering
Date: 26th and 27th October 2015
Venue: Engineering Front Executive Suite, Roberts Building, UCL
The 42nd CREST Open Workshop - CREST Annual Research Review: Recent Results and Research Trends
Date: 15 - 16 June 2015
Venue: Engineering Front Executive Suite, Roberts Building, UCL
The 41st CREST Open Workshop - Software Engineering And Computer Science Using Information
Date: 27 -28 April 2015
Venue: Engineering Front Executive Suite, Roberts Building, UCL
The 40th CREST Open Workshop - SSBSE 2015 Challenge: Collaborative Jam Session
Date: 30 - 31 March 2015
Venue: Engineering Front Executive Suite, Roberts Building, UCL
The 39th CREST Open Workshop - Measuring, Testing and Optimising Computational Energy Consumption
Date: 23 - 24 February 2015
Venue: Engineering Front Executive Suite, Roberts Building, UCL
The 38th CREST Open Workshop - Working Tutorial on Statistical Methods in Experimental Software Engineering
Date: 26 - 27 January 2015
Venue: Engineering Front Executive Suite, Roberts Building, UCL
The 37th CREST Open Workshop Working Tutorial on Empirical Software Engineering Methods
Date: 24 - 25 November 2014
Venue: Engineering Front Executive Suite, Roberts Building, UCL
The 36th CREST Open Workshop App Store Analysis
Date: 27 - 28 October 2014
Venue: Engineering Front Executive Suite, Roberts Building, UCL
The 35th CREST Open Workshop Tutorial on writing EPSRC ICT proposals
Date: 15 - 16 September 2014
Venue: Engineering Front Executive Suite, Roberts Building, UCL
The 34th CREST Open Workshop CREST Annual Review
Date: 19 - 20 May 2014
Venue: Engineering Front Executive Suite, Roberts Building, UCL
The 33rd CREST Open Workshop SSBSE "Jam Session"
Date: 7 - 8 April 2014
Venue: Engineering Front Executive Suite, Roberts Building, UCL
The 32nd CREST Open Workshop Software Engineering for Systems Developed in Functional Languages
Date: 24 - 25 March 2014
Venue: Engineering Front Executive Suite, Roberts Building, UCL
The 31st CREST Open Workshop Statistical Analysis for Software Engineering
Date: 17 - 18 February 2014
Venue: Engineering Front Executive Suite, Roberts Building, UCL
The 30th CREST Open Workshop Search Based Software Testing (SBST) and Dynamic Symbolic Execution (DSE)
Date: 27 - 28 January 2014
Venue: Engineering Front Executive Suite, Roberts Building, UCL
The 29th CREST Open Workshop Software Redundancy
Date: 18 -19 November 2013
Venue: Engineering Front Executive Suite, Roberts Building, UCL
The 28th CREST Open Workshop Genetic Programming for Software Engineering
Date: 14 - 15 October 2013
Venue: Engineering Front Executive Suite, Roberts Building, UCL
The 27th CREST Open Workshop Malware
Date: 29 - 30 May 2013
Venue: Engineering Front Executive Suite, Roberts Building, UCL
The 26th CREST Open Workshop Dynamic Adaptive Automated Search Based Software Engineering (joint DAASE/COW workshop)
Date: 22 - 23 April 2013
Venue: Engineering Front Executive Suite, Roberts Building, UCL
The 25th CREST Open Workshop Requirements and Test Optimisation
Date: 11 - 12 February 2013
Venue: Engineering Front Executive Suite, Roberts Building, UCL
The 24th CREST Open Workshop Machine Learning and Search Based Software Engineering (ML & SBSE)
Date: 30 - 31 January 2013
Venue: Front Engineering Executive Suite, Roberts Building, UCL
The 23rd CREST Open Workshop Change Impact Analysis and Testing of Software Product Lines
Date: 19 - 20 November 2012
Venue: Engineering Front Executive Suite, Roberts Building, UCL
The 22nd CREST Open Workshop Engineering Optimization
Date: 29 - 30 October 2012
Venue: Engineering Front Executive Suite, Roberts Building, UCL
The 21st CREST Open Workshop Computer-Human Interactive Performance Symposium (CHIPS)
Date: 7- 8 June 2012
Venue: Engineering Front Executive Suite, Roberts Building, UCL
The 20th CREST Open Workshop The Oracle Problem for Automated Software Testing
Date: 21 - 22 May 2012
Venue: Engineering Front Executive Suite, Roberts Building, UCL
The 19th CREST Open Workshop Interference and Dependence
Date: 30 April - 1 May 2012
Venue: Engineering Front Executive Suite, Roberts Building, UCL
The 18th CREST Open Workshop Managing and Optimising Multiplicity Computing
Date: 22 - 23 March 2012
Venue: Engineering Front Executive Suite, Roberts Building, UCL
The 17th CREST Open Workshop Software Testing and Verification
Date: 31 January - 1 February 2012
Venue: Engineering Front Executive Suite, Roberts Building, UCL
The 16th CREST Open Workshop Provenance and Product Lines
Date: 28 November 2011
Venue: Engineering Front Executive Suite, Roberts Building, UCL
The 15th CREST Open Workshop Predictive Modelling and Search Based Software Engineering
Date: 24 - 25 October 2011
Venue: Engineering Front Executive Suit, Roberts Building, UCL
The 14th CREST Open Workshop Genetic Programming for Software Engineering
Date: 25 July 2011
Venue: Rockefeller building, room 337, UCL
The 13th CREST Open Workshop Future Internet Testing (FITTEST) & Search Based Software Engineering (SBSE)
Date: Thursday 12 May & Friday 13 May 2011
Venue: William Goodenough Room, Goodenough Club, London
The 12th CREST Open Workshop Security and Code
Date: Wednesday 6 April 2011
Venue: Room 106, Gordon House, UCL
The 11th CREST Open Workshop SBSE for Early Lifecyle Software Engineering: Search Based Requirements and Project Management Optimisation
Date: Wed 23 Feb, 2011
Venue: Engineering Front Executive Suite, Roberts Building
The 10th CREST Open Workshop Program Analysis and Slicing
Date: 24 - 25 Jan, 2011
Venue: William Goodenough Room, Goodenough Club, London
The 9th CREST Open Workshop Code Provenance and Clone Detection
Date: Tue 23 Nov, 2010
Venue: Lethaby Room, Mary Ward House, London
The 8th CREST Open Workshop Advanced Mootation* Testing
Date: Wed 27 Oct, 2010
Venue: Engineering Front Executive Suite, Roberts Building
The 7th CREST Open Workshop Information Fow and Security
Date: 26 May 2010
Keynote: Paul Fletcher, Symantec Hosted Services, UK
The 6th CREST Open Workshop Dependence Analysis and Slicing for Programs and Models
Date: 28 April 2010
Invited Speakers: Rani Ettinger, IBM Haifa Research Lab, Israel, and Saurabh Sinha, IBM Research, India
The 5th CREST Open Workshop Using Information Theoretic Measures in Search Based software Engineering
Date: 31 March 2010
Keynote: Tom Chothia, University of Birmingham, UK
The 4th CREST Open Workshop Operational Research for Software Engineering Methods
Date: 26 February 2010
Keynote: Edmund Burke, University of Nottingham, UK
The 3rd CREST Open Workshop Using Static Analysis for Fault Prediction
Date: 27 January 2010
The 2nd CREST Open Workshop Software Testing
Date: 8 December 2009
Keynote: Tao Xie, North Carolina State University, USA
The 1st CREST Open Workshop/SEBASE Workshop Search Based Software Engineering
Date: 24-25 November 2009
Keynote: Westley Weimer, University of Virginia, USA