A-TEST 2016

Seattle, WA, USA. November 18, 2016 co-located with FSE2016

Introduction
Modern software that impacts all aspects of our life is getting increasingly complex and distributed over clouds and devices. This leads to new concerns in quality assurance.
Testing is at the moment the most important and mostly used quality assurance technique applied in industry. However, the development of cost-effective and high-quality modern systems opens new challenges that cannot be faced only with traditional testing approaches. New techniques for systematization and automation of testing are required.

The A-TEST workshop provides a venue for researchers as well as the industry to exchange and discuss trending views, ideas, state of the art work in progress, and scientific results.

Format and submission
ACM Format and Submission Guidelines through easychair link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=atest2016

Program Committee
Atif Memon
Ina Schieferdecker
Lionel Briand
Robert Feldt
Ana Paiva
Emil Alégroth
M.J. Escalona
Wasif Afzal
Javier Dolado
Raquel Blanco
Valentin Dallmeier
Sheikh Umar Farooq
Steve Counsell
Serge Demeyer
Sung-Shik Jongmans
Marko Van Eekelen
Pekka Aho
Andreas Zeller
Myra Cohen

Types of submission
Position paper (2 pages) intended to generate discussion and debate during the workshop.
Work-in-progress paper (4 pages) that describes novel work in progress, that not necessarily has reached its full completion.
Full paper (7 pages) describing original and completed research.
Tool demo (4 pages) describing your tool and a description of your planned demo-session.
Technology transfer paper (4 pages). Describing a co-operation between University-Industry.

Topics
We invite you to submit a paper to the workshop, and present and discuss it at the event itself on topics related to:
◆ Techniques and tools for automating test case design and selection, e.g.
model-based, combinatorial-based, search based, symbolic-based, or property-based approaches.
◆ Test case/suite optimization.
◆ Test cases evaluation and metrics.
◆ Test cases design, selection, and evaluation in emerging test domains,
e.g. Graphical User Interfaces, Social Network, Cloud, Games or Security, Cyber Physical Systems.
◆ Case studies that have evaluated on real systems, not only toy problems.
◆ Experiences during test technology transfer from university to companies

Important dates
paper submission July 1, 2016
notification: 12th of august
camera-ready: September 15,

A-TEST TEAM
General Chair: Tanja E.J.Vos
Program Chairs: Wishnu Prasetya, Sigrid Eldh
Publicity Chair: Ramón de Vries