[ecoop-info] CfP - DEFECTS 2008

[Tom Zimmermann]

DEFECTS 2008 - Call for Papers
http://pages.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/~zimmerth/defects-2008/


International Workshop on Defects in Large Software Systems
(DEFECTS 2008)

July 20, 2008. Co-located with ISSTA 2008
Seattle Hilton Hotel, 1301 6th Avenue
Seattle, Washington 98101-2304, USA


CALL FOR PAPERS
===============

Bugs are everywhere in today's software and because of the huge
economic damage they are actively studied by research. In program
analysis, researchers develop defect detection tools that identify
anomalies in programs and report them as possible defects. Defect
localization takes a given failure and identifies the cause of the
defect. In empirical software engineering, researchers identify
factors that correlate with defects and build prediction models to
effectively allocate resources for quality assurance to the parts of
the software that need it most. Most of this research is conducted on
medium-sized open-source projects and rarely used in industry. In the
long-term human and social issues will gain importance when analyzing
defects, however, there is only little research in this area so far.

The goal of this one-day workshop is to connect the different research
communities with each other and with industry. The workshop will
provide a forum for researchers as well as practitioners to discuss
issues related to all aspects of bugs. Researchers can present their
tools and techniques and make them accessible to
industry. Participants from industry can share their experiences and
help identifying new and promising research directions.

Papers may address issues along the general themes, including but not
limited to the following:

- Techniques to detect, locate, or predict defects
- Evaluation and comparison of techniques and models related to defects
- Empirical studies of defects
- Types of defects that occur in software
- Evolution of defects over time
- Tools for post-deployment defect detection and reporting
- Defect prioritization and presentation
- Prevalence of false positives or benign defects
- Cost models for defects
- Mining information from defect databases and version control archives
- User interface issues for defect tools
- Experience using certain techniques to identify or predict defects
- Human and social issues related to defects

We expect the workshop to be a forum for exploratory work as well as
continuing work. The workshop will also cover a broad range of topics
and thus be an ideal venue for newcomers to research on defects. Also
we expect several practitioners from industry and hope to foster
collaboration between academia and industry.

Accepted papers will be included in the ISSTA proceedings. They will
also be accessible on this web-page before the workshop to facilitate
interaction and discussion between participants.


IMPORTANT DATES
===============

Submissions: Friday, April 11, 2008 by 23:59:59 Apia time
Author notification: Friday, May 2, 2008
Camera-ready copy: Early June (to be confirmed)
Workshop: Sunday, July 20, 2008

All deadlines are strict---no extensions will be given. Submission
will be via EasyChair and open in March 2008.

http://pages.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/~zimmerth/defects-2008/


SUBMISSIONS
===========

For presentation at the workshop, we will solicit three kinds of
submissions:

* Short papers (2 pages) will be expected to discuss controversial
issues in the field, or describe interesting or thought-provoking
ideas that are not yet fully developed.

* Research papers (5 pages) will be expected to describe new research
results and have a higher degree of technical rigor than short papers.

* Experience papers (5 pages) should describe case studies in an
industrial setting or provide a critical discussion of experiences
gained in software development projects.

Papers must follow the ACM conference format and must not exceed the
page limits mentioned above, including figures and references. All
submissions must be in English. Papers must be submitted
electronically, in PDF format, using EasyChair.

Three members of the program committee will review each submission and
select the papers to be presented at the workshop.

It is the desire of the organizers that discussion of research at the
workshop does not preclude publication of closely related material at
conferences or journals. Authors of accepted papers will be able to
choose an "abstract only" option, where only the abstract of the paper
will be published in the workshop proceedings.


CHALLENGE
=========

The workshop will host a defect challenge allowing researchers to
compare their favourite defect detection technique with other
approaches, regardless of wether they are static or dynamic. The
dataset will include well-known subjects from the Software-artifact
Infrastructure Repository (SIR), as well as large open-source projects
with defects mined from version archives. Don't miss this chance to
show that your approach is the best. More information will be posted
soon.


ORGANIZATION
============

Workshop Organizers

- Thomas Zimmermann, University of Calgary, Canada (contact)
- Prem Devanbu, University of California, USA
- Brendan Murphy, Microsoft Research, UK
- Nachiappan Nagappan, Microsoft Research, USA

Challenge Organizer

- Valentin Dallmeier, Saarland University, Germany

Program Committee

- Robin.Abraham, Microsoft Corporation, USA
- Lionel C. Briand, Simula Research Laboratory/University of Oslo,  
Norway
- Andy Chou, Coverity, USA
- Bojan Cukic, West Virginia University, USA
- Mangala Gowri, IBM India Research Laboratory, India
- Ahmed E. Hassan, Queen's University, Canada
- Sung Kim, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
- Joseph Lawrance, Oregon State University, USA
- Audris Mockus, Avaya Labs Research, USA
- Thomas Ostrand, AT&T, USA
- Martin Pinzger, University of Zurich, Switzerland
- Andy Podgurski, Case Western Reserve University, USA
- Jim Whitehead, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA
- Andreas Zeller, Saarland University, Germany


--
Thomas Zimmermann
http://pages.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/~zimmerth/



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