What is the central idea of Search-Based Software Engineering?
The central idea of SBSE is to reframe software engineering challenges as search problems. Instead of hand-crafting solutions or using deterministic algorithms, we define an objective function – a way to measure the 'goodness' of a potential solution – and then employ sophisticated search techniques to explore the space of possible solutions to find the one that optimizes our objective. This allows us to tackle complex problems that were previously intractable.
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