[ecoop-info] Call for Participation: Third Workshop on Automation of Software Test (AST'08) - 11 May 2008

[Budnik, Christof (SCR US)]

CALL-FOR-PARTICIPATION


Third Workshop on Automation of Software Test (AST'08)
(URL: http://cms.brookes.ac.uk/staff/HongZhu/ASTworkshops/AST2008/ )

Special Theme: Model-Based Testing for Test Automation

Leipzig, Germany, 11 May 2008
at the 30th Int. Conf. on Software Engineering (ICSE'08) 
(http://icse08.upb.de/)


In software development practice, testing accounts for as
much as 50% of total development efforts. It is imperative to
reduce the cost and improve the effectiveness of software testing
by automating the testing process. 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 first and second AST
workshops held at ICSE 2006 and ICSE 2007, respectively. It will
provide researchers and practitioners a forum for exchanging
ideas, experiences, understanding of the problems, visions for the
future, and promising solutions to the problems. The workshop
will also provide a platform for researchers and developers of
testing tools to work together to identify the problems in the
theory and practice of software test automation and to set an
agenda and lay the foundation for future development.

The topics covered by the workshop include:
* Software test automation in the context of various software
  development methodologies
* Automation of various test techniques and methods used in 
  various test related activities and various application domains
* Development, operation, maintenance and evolution of software
  testing tools and environments.
* Experiments, empirical studies and experience reports and
  vision of the future of software test automation.

The program is now posted on the workshop website at URL:
http://cms.brookes.ac.uk/staff/HongZhu/ASTworkshops/AST2008/ 

The advance Registration Deadline is April 2, 2008
Make your Registration at: http://icse08.upb.de//registration/index.html




Best Regards,

Christof J. Budnik, 
Siemens Corporate Research, christof.budnik at siemens.com
AST'08 Workshop Chair of Publicity and Local Organization