[ecoop-info] CfP STEV'07 (co-located with QSIC'07)

[Sami Beydeda]

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|                         Call for Papers                           |
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|                 FIRST INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON                   |
|                     SOFTWARE TEST EVALUATION                      |
|		            (STEV 2007)                             |
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|            Portland, Oregon, USA, October 11/12, 2007             |
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|        http://www.mathematik.uni-ulm.de/sai/mayer/stev07/         |
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|                    co-located with QSIC 2007                      |
|		        October 11-12, 2007                         |
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|      (Proceedings published by IEEE Computer Society Press)       |
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|   Deadlines: Abstracts due by June 22 and papers due by June 29   |
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|||||| Theme and Goals ||||||

Testing is the most commonly used and most important activity in
software quality assurance, frequently accounting for over 50% of the
entire cost of software development. For large systems with complex
functionality and large input spaces, it is imperative to automate
software testing. Automation should include not only automated execution
of test cases, but also automatic test data selection and automatic
evaluation of test outputs. While there has been quite a lot of research
in the field of automatic test data generation, there is not so much
work regarding test oracles.

There has recently been increased activity in the field of test
evaluation. Several approaches have been proposed to overcome the
oracle problem, such as model-based test oracles, log file analysis,
metamorphic testing, symmetric testing, statistical hypothesis tests,
and many others. While these techniques are quite helpful, there remain
many open questions. Ideas have to be exchanged, new approaches have to
be proposed and evaluated, and problems have to be identified and solved.

The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers, engineers,
and practitioners to discuss and evaluate the latest challenges and
breakthroughs in the field of test evaluation and to identify future
trends and problems in this area. The combination of people from both
academia and industry is intended to foster a two-way flow of information,
to help make academic researchers aware of practical problems from
industry, and to facilitate the conversion of theoretical research
results into practical applications.


|||||| Topics of Interest ||||||

Contributions related to test evaluation and its automation, especially
 >from one of the following fields, are welcome from academia and industry:

* New and innovative approaches to the oracle problem
* Model-based test evaluation
* Partial oracles (such as post-conditions, metamorphic relations,
   and symmetry relations)
* Test evaluation by means of log file analysis
* Test oracles for complex SUTs, such as e.g. GUIs and databases
* Empirical studies and comparisons of oracle approaches
* Test evaluation using methods from statistics
* Description of practical applications for which the oracle problem
   seems not to be solved yet


|||||| Contributions and Submission ||||||

Contributions can have the form of position papers, full technical papers,
and short papers. They must be unpublished and not under consideration
for publication elsewhere.

Papers from academia and industry on original research results are
welcome as well as contributions describing experiences with solutions
and problems related to software test evaluation.

Papers and talks must be in English. Papers must not exceed 4 pages
(position and short papers) resp. 8 pages (full technical papers) in
IEEE proceedings format (8.5" x 11") (including all text, references,
appendices, figures, and tables). Please format papers according to
the IEEE proceedings style and submit them in Adobe portable document
format (PDF) with all fonts embedded via the online submission system
(cf. submissions on this site). All papers will be published in the QSIC
IEEE proceedings. Authors of accepted papers will be required to sign
an IEEE copyright form.

All submitted papers will be reviewed by at least three members of
the Program Committee. Acceptance will primarily be based on quality,
relevance, and potential to generate discussion.

Papers must be submitted in PDF format via the online submission system
which will be referenced on the workshop homepage (see above).

Please contact the workshop co-chairs in case of problems or questions
regarding the submission process. Do not submit papers via email. Paper
submission is only accepted via the online submission system


|||||| Important Dates ||||||

Submission of Abstracts:	June 22, 2007
Submission of Papers:		June 29, 2007
Notification of Acceptance:	July 27, 2007
Camera Ready Copy:		August 10, 2007
Workshop:			October 11/12, 2007


|||||| Workshop Organizers and Program Committee ||||||

Workshop Organizers and Program Committee Co-Chairs

Johannes Mayer (Ulm University, Germany)
Sami Beydeda (ZIVIT, Germany)

Program Committee Members (to be completed!)

Luciano Baresi (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
Fevzi Belli (University of Paderborn, Germany)
W.K. Chan (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
Yoonsik Cheon (The University of Texas at El Paso, USA)
Arnaud Gotlieb (IRISA - INRIA, France)
Fei-Ching Kuo (Swinburne University of Technology, Australia)
Peter Liggesmeyer (TU Kaiserslautern/Fraunhofer IESE, Germany)
Jeff Offutt (George Mason University, USA)
Tom Ostrand (AT&T Labs - Research, USA)
Francesca Saglietti (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany)
Franz Schweiggert (Ulm University, Germany)
T.H. Tse (The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
Elaine Weyuker (AT&T Labs - Research, USA)
Michal Young (University of Oregon, USA)
Hong Zhu (Oxford Brookes University, UK)