8th Workshop on
Validation, Analysis and Evolution of Software Tests

Software projects accumulate large sets of test cases, encoding valuable expert knowledge about the system 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.

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

 ●  Analysis and validation of test code, test data, and test models

 ●  Test execution monitoring, results analysis, and visualization

 ●  Fault detection and localization

 ●  Co-evolution of tests and production code

 ●  Test case maintenance and automated repair

 ●  Clone detection for test code and data

 ●  Test generation and amplification

 ●  Test prioritization, minimization and simplification

 ●  Application of generative AI and LLMs in testing

 ●  Combinations of the topics above

  Download Call for Papers (txt)

Previous editions of this workshop: VST 2024, VST 2023, VST 2022, VST 2021, VST 2020, VST 2018, and VST 2016.

We encourage submissions on the topics mentioned above with a page limit of max 8 pages, IEEE format. In addition, we will also allow position papers and tool demo papers of two to four pages.

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. Accepted papers will be published in the IEEE Digital Library along with the SANER proceedings.

Submission Instructions

• Papers must not exceed the page limit of 8 pages (including all text, references, appendices, and figures), position papers and tool demos 2-4 pages

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

• Submissions should be prepared for a full double-blind review process (author names and affiliations should be omitted and references to own work should be in the third person)

• Papers must comply with the IEEE policy on authorship. Papers must be original work that has neither appeared elsewhere for publication nor which is under review for another publication

• Submissions are required in PDF format via EasyChair at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=vst2025

  Submit your paper at: VST 2025 EasyChair submission site