[ecoop-info] CfP: Third ACM/IEEE Workshop on Automation of SoftwareTest at ICSE (May 11, 2008, Leipzig)

[Christof J. Budnik]

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(*  Third Workshop on Automation of Software Test (AST  
2008)                *)
(* at the 30th Int. Conf. on Software Engineering (ICSE  
2008)                   *)
(*              Leipzig, Germany, 11 May  
2008                                                      *)
(URL: http://cms.brookes.ac.uk/staff/HongZhu/ASTworkshops/AST2008/  )
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IMPORTANT DATES
* Submission deadline: 27 January  2008
* Notification of acceptance: 7 February 2008
* Camera-Ready version: 21 February 2008
* Workshop date: 11 May 2008

INTRODUCTION
In the past decades, a great amount of research effort has been spent  
on automatic test case generation, automatic test oracles, etc.  
Automation is also the future trend of software testing practice.
The workshop is the successor of the AST workshops held at ICSE 2006  
and ICSE 2007.

COVERED TOPICS
The topics covered by the workshop include, but are not limited to,  
the following.
1) Methodology: Software test automation in the context of various  
software development methodologies, such as in model driven,  
component-based, agile, test-driven methodology, product lines,  
service-oriented, agent-oriented, aspect-oriented methodologies, and  
in evolutionary development.
2) Technology: Automation of various test techniques and methods used  
in various test related activities, support of various software  
testing methods, and applications to various specific types of  
software in various application domains.
3) Software testing tools and environments: Issues in the  
development, operation, maintenance and evolution of software testing  
tools and environments.
4) Experiments, empirical studies and experience reports and vision  
of the future of software test automation.

SPECIAL THEME and CASE STUDY SESSION
This year the workshop has a special theme on model-based software  
testing for test automation.Three sessions on this theme will be  
organised as follows.
* A keynote session.
* A regular paper session with presentations of accepted papers.
* A case study session aiming at an in-depth discussion on a specific  
open problem in test automation.
* Position papers on the case study are invited to express opinions  
and proposals as well as report experiences.
* In particular, software testing tool vendors and are invited to  
apply their R&D results and tools to this problem.

SUBMISSION
Two types of submissions are requested: the regular papers and the  
case study position papers.
Regular papers must be within the length between 6 and 8 pages and  
report research and/or practical experience in the area of software  
testing automation.
Position papers on the case study must address the issues of the case  
study. The length of a position paper can be slight shorter but no  
less than 4 pages. The maximum length is the same as regular papers,  
i.e. 8 pages.
All papers submitted to the workshop must be unpublished original  
work and must not have been submitted anywhere else for publication.  
The papers must be in English and in the format of ACM SIG  
Proceedings Format in either PDF or postscript format. Submissions  
must be made through online upload to the workshop paper submission  
website.
Submissions must clearly indicate either as a regular paper or a  
position paper on the special theme case study. Both position papers  
and regular papers will be reviewed by three workshop PC members, but  
using different criteria. Acceptance of papers for presentation at  
the workshop will be based on the merits and their relevance to the  
objective of the workshop.

PUBLICATION OF PAPERS
The accepted workshop papers including both regular and position  
papers will be published in the ICSE 2008 conference proceedings in  
ACM and IEEE Digital Libraries. ICSE papers and Workshop papers will  
be published in two separate volumes. Workshop attendees will receive  
a memory stick with both proceedings volumes on it.
Authors of accepted papers are required to register for the workshop  
and present the paper at the workshop in order for the paper to be  
included in the proceedings and ACM and IEEE Digital Libraries. After  
the workshop, the authors of selected best regular papers will be  
invited to submit a significantly revised and extended version of  
their papers for consideration of publication either as a special  
issue in a journal.

WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS
Workshop Co-Chairs
Prof. Hong Zhu, School of Technology,
Oxford Brookes University, Oxford OX33 1HX, UK,
Email: hzhu at brookes.ac.uk,
Tel: 0044 1865 484580, Fax: 0044 1865 484545

Prof. W. Eric Wong, Department of Computer Science,
University of Texas at Dallas,Richardson, TX 75083, USA,
Email: ewong at utdallas.edu ,
Tel: +1 972 883-6619, Fax: +1 972 883-2399

Prof. Dr. Fevzi Belli
Faculty for Computer Science, Electrical Eng. and Mathematics,
University of Paderborn, 33095 Paderborn, DE
Email: belli at upb.de,
Tel: +49 5251 603447, Fax: +49 5251 03246

Chair of Publicity and Local Organization
Dr. Christof J. Budnik
Boewe Cardtec, Balhorner Feld 28, D-33106 Paderborn, DE
Email:  cj.budnik at googlemail.com
Tel: + 49 5251 18086-20, Fax: + 49 5251 18086-99

Please see workshop website for more details and the workshop  
Programme Committee: http://cms.brookes.ac.uk/staff/HongZhu/ 
ASTworkshops/AST2008.