2nd Workshop on
Validation, Analysis and Evolution of Software Tests

Software projects accumulate large sets of test cases, encoding valuable expert knowledge about the software under test to the extent of many person years. Over time the reliability of the tests decreases, and they become difficult to understand and maintain. Extra effort is required for repairing broken tests and for adapting test suites and models to evolving software systems.

The International Workshop on Validation, Analysis and Evolution of Software Tests (VST) is an unique event bringing together academics, industrial researchers, and practitioners for exchanging experiences, solutions and new ideas in applying methods, techniques and tools from software analysis, evolution and reengineering to advance the state of the art in test development and maintenance.

The workshop invites high quality submissions related, but are not limited, to:

 ●  Test minimization and simplification

 ●  Fault localization and automated repair

 ●  Change analysis for software tests

 ●  Test visualization and validation

 ●  Documentation analysis

 ●  Bug report analysis

 ●  Test evolution

 ●  Test case generation

 ●  Model-based testing

 ●  Combinations of the topics above

  Download Call for Papers (txt) | Flyer (pdf) | Poster (pdf)

We encourage submissions on the topics mentioned above with a page limit of five pages, IEEE format. Papers will be by reviewed by at least three program committee members following a full double-blind review process. Paper selection is based on scientific originality, novelty, and the potential to generate interesting discussions.

We will also allow fast abstracts and tool demo papers of one or two pages for presentation at the workshop, but not to be published in written form.

Submission Instructions

• Papers must not exceed the page limit of five pages (including all text, references, appendices, and figures)

• Papers must conform to the IEEE formatting guidelines for conference proceedings

• Papers must be prepared for a full double-blind review process (author names and affiliations must be omitted, references to the authors' own work must be in the third person, and any naming or referencing that would give away the authors' identity has to be avoided)

• Papers must be original work that has neither appeared elsewhere for publication nor which is under review for another publication

• Papers must be submitted in PDF format via EasyChair at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=vst2018

  Submit your paper at: VST 2018 EasyChair submission site