VST 2024

7th International Workshop on 
Validation, Analysis and Evolution of Software Tests

March 12, 2024 - co-located with SANER 2024, Rovaniemi, Finland
https://vstworkshop.github.io/vst2024/

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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 code analysis and validation
* Test execution monitoring and visualization
* Test results analysis and bug reporting 
* Fault detection and localization
* Change impact analysis for software tests
* Co-evolution of tests and code
* Automated repair for test code
* Clone detection for tests
* Metamorphic relations for testing
* Test generation and amplification
* Regression test selection and prioritization
* Test minimization and simplification
* Model-based testing
* Combinations of the topics above

 
Submission:

We encourage submission of papers on the topics mentioned above: Full papers (8 pages), 
position papers and tool demonstration papers (2 to 4 pages).
Papers must conform to the IEEE proceedings paper format guidelines and need to be 
prepared for a full double-blind review process. If the paper is 
accepted, at least one author must attend the workshop and present the paper. 

Submission is done via EasyChair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=vst2024).


Important dates:

Abstract submission deadline:  December 08, 2023 AoE 
Paper submission deadline:     December 13, 2023 AoE 
Notification of acceptance:    January  08, 2024
Camera-ready version due:      January  12, 2024


Program chairs:

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