CALL-FOR-PAPERS
AST 2015
10th IEEE/ACM International Workshop on Automation of Software Test
http://tech.brookes.ac.uk/AST2015/
Firenze, Italy, May. 23 ~ 24, 2015
In Conjunction with ICSE 2015 (http://2015.icse-conferences.org)
IMPORTANT DATES:
Submission deadline:
Jan. 23, 2015
Notification of acceptance:
Feb. 18, 2015
Camera-Ready version:
Feb. 27, 2015
Workshop dates:
May 23 & 24, 2015
In software development practice, testing accounts for as
much as 50% of the total development effort. It is therefore
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. Test
automation is also becoming an important part of software
testing practice.
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CHARETTE DISCUSSIONS
The workshop continues the successful charette
discussions of the previous years. This year, the topic of
the charette discussion sessions will focus on the topic of
Test Oracles.
INDUSTRIAL CASE STUDIES
There will also be an Industrial Case Studies session at
the workshop, with presentations reporting the real state
of the practice in automation of software testing. Test
practitioners are especially encouraged to contribute their
experiences and insights on test automation. Topics for
this session include, but are not limited to, the following:
new tools, new best practices, process innovations related
to test automation, gaps in existing vendor toolsets, ideas
and visions for near-term research work.
The workshop is the 10 edition of the successful AST
workshops held at ICSE conferences. It will provide
researchers and practitioners with a forum for exchanging
Workshop PC Co-Chairs
ideas, experiences, understanding of the problems, visions
Dr. Rajesh Subramanyan,
for the future, and promising solutions to the problems. The
Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics,
workshop will also provide a platform for researchers and
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developers of testing tools to work together to identify the
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problems in the theory and practice of software test
Email:
automation and to set an agenda and lay the foundation for
rajesh.subramanyan@siemens.com future development.
SUBMISSIONS
Prof. Leonardo Mariani,
TOPICS OF INTEREST
Two types of submissions are invited: regular papers and
University of Milano Bicocca, viale
The workshop focuses on bridging the gap between the industrial case study papers. The former presents
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theory and practice of software test automation. The topics research in the area of software test automation,
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cover all aspects related to software test automation. In while the latter presents practical applications of test
Email: mariani@disco.unimib.it
particular, papers on the following topics are covered, but automation. Both types of papers are limited to 5 pages
in IEEE Conference Proceedings Format.
Prof. Dan Hao, Peking University, are not limited to:
Room 1431, Science Building #1,
All papers submitted to the workshop must be
Peking University, Beijing, China. 1) Methodology: Software test automation in the context of
unpublished original work and should not be under
various
software
development
methodologies.
Tel: 86-10-62757008-11,
review or submitted elsewhere while being under
Email: haodan@pku.edu.cn
2) Technology: Automation of various test techniques and consideration.
methods for testing related activities, as well as for testing
Steering Committee
All submissions must be in English and in either PDF or
various types of software applications.
Prof. Hong Zhu (Chair)
postscript format through online upload to the workshop
3) Tools and environments: Issues in the development, submission website at the following URL:
Oxford Brookes University, UK
hzhu@brookes.ac.uk
operation, maintenance and evolution of software testing http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=AST2015
tools and environments, and their integration and interProf. Antonia Bertilino, ISTIoperation with other types of software development and All submissions will be reviewed by three PC members.
CNR, Italy
maintenance tools and runtime support environments and Regular papers will be judged on the basis of their
Dr. Christof J. Budnik, Siemens
clarity, relevance, originality, and contribution. Case
platforms.
Corp. Research, USA
study papers will be judged on the basis of their clarity,
4) Experiments, empirical studies and experience reports: relevance, and interest to the workshop participants.
Prof. Fevzi Belli, Paderborn
Experiments, empirical studies of software test automation,
University, Germany
as well as reports on real experiences in using automated PUBLICATION OF PAPERS
Prof. Shing-chi Cheung, The
Hong Kong University of Science testing techniques, methods and tools in industry.
The accepted workshop papers including both regular
and Technology, Hong Kong
5) Identification of problems and visions of the future: The and case study papers will be published in the AST 2015
Dr. Jenny Li, Avaya Labs
identification of problems that hamper wider adoption of Proceedings and included in the IEEE Digital Libraries.
Research, USA
automated test techniques, methods and tools and the Authors of accepted papers are required to register for
analysis and specification of the requirements on automated the workshop and present the paper at the workshop in
Dr. Steve Masticola, Siemens,
software testing.
USA
order for the paper to be included in the proceedings and
Prof. Eric Wong, Univ. of Texas at The AST 2015 workshop focuses on a special topic on Test Digital Library.
Dallas, USA
Oracles. Submissions on this topic are especially
encouraged, but papers on other topics are also welcome.
Please see workshop website for
ORGANIZERS:
the workshop Program Committee.