Fifth International Workshop on Testing Database Systems
(in conjunction with ACM SIGMOD)
Scottsdale, Arizona, USA
May 21, 2012

http://dbtest2012.comp.polyu.edu.hk/index.htm

The functionality provided by modern data management systems is continuously expanding. New applications and usage patterns, the evolution of the underlying hardware and software infrastructure, and increased competition drive continuous innovation and expansion of these systems. As a result, it has become increasingly expensive to test and tune them, and these stages tend to dominate the release cycle. It is not unusual to find that fifty percent of the development cost derives from testing and tuning, and that several months are needed for testing before a new release can be shipped. This situation will only get worse unless new ideas can be brought to bear.

There is significant interest in testing within the database community. The goal of DBTest 2012 is to bring together researchers and practitioners from academia and industry to discuss key problems and ideas related to testing. We expect that this collaboration will facilitate the creation of research agendas and new techniques to address testing problems. The long-term objective of such work is to reduce the cost and time required to test and tune database products so that users and vendors can spend more time and energy on actual innovations.

TOPICS OF INTEREST:

* Testing issues in multi-tenant databases and cloud databases
* Testing techniques for data stream management systems
* Testing issues in distributed data processing frameworks (e.g., Hadoop)
* Testing techniques for database systems, data storage services, and database applications
* Generation of test artifacts (e.g., test databases, test queries)
* Interactions between testing and tuning of database systems
* Maximizing code coverage of database systems/applications
* Testing the reliability and availability of database systems
* Improving the usability of database systems
* Testing and designing systems that are robust to estimation inaccuracies
* Testing the efficiency of adaptive policies and components
* Identifying performance bottlenecks
* Robust query processing
* Metrics for predictability of query and workload performance
* Security and vulnerability testing
* War stories and vision papers


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IMPORTANT DATES:

Papers submission deadline: March 12 (5PM PST), 2012
Authors notification: April 5, 2012
Camera-ready due: April 22, 2012
Workshop: May 21, 2012

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SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:

Papers should not be longer than six pages, and should be submitted on-line through DBTest 2012's CMT paper submission site (https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/DBTEST2012/). All aspects of the submission and notification process will be handled electronically. Submissions must adhere to the paper formatting instructions (http://dbtest2012.comp.polyu.edu.hk/PaperSubmission.htm).

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ORGANIZATION:

Workshop PC co-Chairs:
Eric Lo, Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Florian Waas, EMC Corporation, USA

Steering Committee:
Donald Kossmann (ETH Zurich)
Leo Giakoumakis (Microsoft, USA)

Program Committee:
Glenn Paulley (Sybase)
Guy Lohman (IBM)
Jayant Haritsa (IISC Bangalore)
Jens Dittrich (Univeristaet des Saarlands)
Meikel Poess (Oracle)
Neoklis Polyzotis (UC Santa Cruz)
Rimma Nehme (Microsoft)
S Sudarshan (IIT Bombay)
Thomas Neumann (TU Munich)
Carsten Binnig (DHBW Mannheim)
Zhendong Su(University of California, Davis)