IEEE International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation (ICST) 2017

Research Track Papers

We invite the submission of high-quality papers in all areas of software testing, verification, and validation. Research papers should present original and significant work that advances the state of the art. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Testing theory and practice
Testing in globally-distributed organizations
Model-based testing
Model-driven engineering and testing
Domain specific testing, such as:
Mobile app testing
Web-service testing
Database testing
Embedded software testing
Testing concurrent software
Testing large-scale distributed systems
Testing cloud systems
Testing real-time systems
Testing data-intensive systems
Testing in multi-core environments
Quality assurance
Model checking
Formal verification
Fuzzing
Inspections
Testing and analysis tools
Design for testability
Testing education
Technology transfer in testing
Agile/iterative/incremental testing processes
Testing of open source and third-party software
Software reliability
Performance and QoS testing
Security testing
Testing standards and technologies
Metrics and Empirical studies
Experience reports

Each submission will be reviewed by at least three members of the ICST Program Committee. Authors of the best papers presented at ICST 2017 will be invited to extend their work for possible inclusion in a special issue of International Journal on Software Tools for Technology Transfer, a Springer journal
Format

Research papers must conform to the two-column IEEE conference publication format. Templates for Latex and Word are available at http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html; use the letter format templates and the "conference" option (i.e., not the Computer Society format).

Papers must be submitted in PDF format and must not exceed 10 pages (+2 pages for references). ICST uses single-blind reviewing, so please include all author names and affiliations.

We invite submission of research and technical papers that describe original and significant work in the research and practice of software testing, verification and validation. Case studies and empirical research papers are also welcome.

Papers must neither have been previously accepted for publication nor be under submission in another conference or journal. The ICST 2017 research track accepts only full research papers. Short papers are not accepted to the research track.

Important Dates
Submission of full papers: September 23, 2016
Notification of acceptance: November 19, 2016

Program Committee Chairs

Ina Schieferdecker, Fraunhofer FOKUS/TU Berlin, Germany
Hironori Washizaki, Waseda University, Japan

Program Committee (tbd)