VST 2023

6th International Workshop on 
Validation, Analysis and Evolution of Software Tests

March, 2023 - co-located with SANER 2023, Macau, China
https://vstworkshop.github.io/vst2023/

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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 a 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 re-engineering 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 on the topics mentioned above: Full papers (8 pages 
maximum), position papers and tool demonstration papers (2 to 4 pages maximum).
Papers must conform to the IEEE proceedings paper format guidelines. If the paper is 
accepted, at least one author must attend the workshop and present the paper. Accepted 
papers will be published in the IEEE Digital Library along with the SANER proceedings.

Submission is done via EasyChair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=vst2023).


Important dates:

Abstract submission deadline:  December 11, 2022 AoE 
Paper submission deadline:     December 18, 2022 AoE 
Notification of acceptance:    January  08, 2023
Camera-ready version due:      January  15, 2023


Program chairs:

Christian Macho, University of Klagenfurt, Austria
Martin Pinzger, University of Klagenfurt, Austria
Rudolf Ramler, Software Competence Center Hagenberg, Austria