VST 2018

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

March 20, 2018 - co-located with SANER 2018, Campobasso, Italy
http://vst2018.scch.at/

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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.

Topics of interest include, 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

 
Submission:

We encourage submission of papers up to five pages on the topics mentioned 
above. Accepted papers will be published in IEEE proceedings. (VST also allows 
fast abstracts and tool demo papers of one or two pages for presentation at 
the workshop, but not to be published in written form.)

Papers must be prepared for a full double-blind review process and according to 
the instructions given on the workshop page. Submission is done via EasyChair
(https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=vst2018).


Important dates:

Abstract submission deadline:    January 5, 2018 AoE
Paper submission deadline:      January 12, 2018 AoE
Notification of acceptance:     February 9, 2018
Camera-ready version due:      February 22, 2018


Program chairs:

Cyille Artho, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
Rudolf Ramler, Software Competence Center Hagenberg, Austria


Program committee:

 * Arpad Beszedes, University of Szeged, Hungary
 * Eun-Hye Choi, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and 
   Technology (AIST), Japan
 * Vahid Garousi, Wageningen University, Netherlands
 * Mohammad Ghafari, University of Bern, Switzerland
 * Milos Gligoric, University of Texas at Austin, USA
 * Michaela Greiler, Microsoft, USA
 * Falk Howar, Technical University Clausthal, Germany
 * Takashi Kitamura, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and 
   Technology (AIST), Japan
 * Teng Long, University of Maryland, USA
 * Lei Ma, Harbin Institute of Technology, China
 * Leonardo Mariani, University of Milan Bicocca, Italy
 * Martina Seidl, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria