[ecoop-info] CfP: Workshop "Testing of Software - From Research to Practice", Feb. 19 in Munich

[Budnik Christof]

Call for Paper

 

Testing of Software - From Research to Practice

 

Second Workshop in conjunction with Software Engineering 2008

February 19, 2008, Munich, Germany

 

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Theme and Aim of the Workshop

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Costs entailed by software failures demonstrate that the systematic

development of software in a certain quality is still a challenge, even

after decades of research. A reason for this can certainly be found

within the single projects. Often, known techniques of quality

assurance are not employed as required due to deadline and budget

restrictions. However, a reason is surely a limited transfer from

research results to practice. An example for this are the manifold

research activities in dynamic testing, coverage criteria based testing

in particular, and a very limited application of corresponding testing

techniques in industrial projects.

 

Reasons for a limited transfer from research to practice can be:

 

* Limited insight on requirements from practice

* Limited dissemination of formal testing techniques

* Inappropriate assumptions underlying testing techniques

* Complexity of testing techniques and tools

* Lack of tool support for the use in large projects

* Inappropriate cost estimates

* Effort required for training

* Lack of management support and an insufficient allocation of resources

* Lack of theoretically founded testing techniques in specific domains

 

This full-day workshops aims at giving researchers and

practitioners a platform to present their results, their experience and

also their expectations to each other. This will not only allow a more

intensive transfer from research to practice, this will also form the

basis for a more fruitful cooperation in future.

 

The topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

 

* Formal testing techniques in practice, eg. model-based testing, 

  mutation testing,  coverage testing

* Static, analytical and dynamic testing techniques

* Experiences in explorative testing

* Application of test patterns

* Testing and reliability (availability, security etc.)

* Testing measures and their quantification

* Tools for automated testing

* Test management

* Cost and effort estimates of existing testing techniques

* Testing of different architectures

* Test characteristics of diverse quality factors (safety, integrity etc.)

* Experience reports and case studies from practice

* Requirements from practice

 

 

Submission/Publication

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Three types of submissions are welcome: Full papers, short papers and

fast abstracts. The latter two aim at giving interesting ongoing work

the possibility to be presented and discussed in a broader audience.

Feedback and discussion in an early stage facilitates a later transfer

of the corresponding results to practice, which is the main objective

of the workshop. Papers are accepted in English or German. 

 

Full papers will have 30 minutes for presentation, short papers 20

minutes, and fast abstracts 15 minutes. The presentation should be

held in English. Similarly, the length of the corresponding submissions 

are limited to 8, 4, and 2 pages, respectively.

 

Submissions should be formatted according to the layout requirements

which can be found at http://www.gi-ev.de/service/publikationen/lni/

 

Please follow the instructions at http://se2008.in.tum.de/ for submission.

 

 

Important Dates

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Jan. 11, 2008: Submission due date

Jan. 18, 2008: Notification of acceptance

Jan. 27, 2008: Due date for camera ready copies

 

Accepted submissions will be published in an edition of the series

"Lecture Notes in Informatics (LNI)". For this, one of the authors

needs to register and present the accepted submission. Besides this,

best papers will be published in a special issue in a scientific

journal.

 

 

Organization

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Fevzi Belli, Universität Paderborn (belli at upb.de)

Christof J. Budnik, Böwe Cardtec (cbudnik at boewe-cardtec.de) 

Andreas Spillner, Hochschule Bremen (spillner at informatik.hs-bremen.de)

 

 

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