4th International Workshop on Testing Database Systems
(DBTest 2011)
http://db.uwaterloo.ca/dbtest2011/
June 13, 2011 Athens, Greece
In conjunction with the 2011 ACM SIGMOD/PODS Conference

*** Workshop Overview ***

The DBTest workshops bring researchers and practitioners together
to discuss key problems and ideas related to testing database systems.
DBTest 2011 is the fourth workshop in the series.

The focus of the DBTtest workshops is techniques for measuring
important properties of database systems, including performance,
reliability, security, availability, and robustness. We define
database systems broadly to include any systems that, like
relational database management systems, must manage a subtantial
amount of data on behalf of applications.

*** Topics of Interest ***

* Testing techniques for database systems, data storage
services, database applications
* Generation of synthetic data for test databases
* Generation of stochastic test models for large test matrices
* Techniques and algorithms for automatic program verification
* Maximizing code coverage of database systems/applications
* Testing the reliability and availability of database systems
* Test-modeling of database systems/applications
* Testing and designing systems that are robust to
estimation inaccuracies
* Testing the efficiency of adaptive policies and components
* Minimizing, automating, and ranking of system tuning parameters
* Identifying performance bottlenecks
* Workload characterization with respect to performance metrics
and engine components
* Testing data consistency Vs. availability tradeoffs in
emerging systems
* Metrics for predictability of query and workload performance
* Metrics for query plan robustness
* Security and vulnerability testing

*** Important Dates ***

* Paper submissions due: March 28, 2011
* Author notification: April 22, 2011
* Camera-ready papers due: May 10, 2011

*** Workshop Organizers ***

* Goetz Graefe (HP Labs)
* Ken Salem (University of Waterloo, Canada)

*** Program Committee ***

* Shivnath Babu (Duke University)
* Chris Jermaine (Rice University)
* Stefan Manegold (CWI)
* Ippokratis Pandis (CMU)
* Glenn Paulley (Sybase)
* Meikel Poess (Oracle)
* Kai-Uwe Sattler (Technische Universität Ilmenau)
* Calisto Zuzarte (IBM)