AST 2018: 13th IEEE/ACM International Workshop on Automation of Software Test In conjunction with ICSE 2018 Gothenburg, Sweden, May 28-29, 2018 |
Conference website | http://ast2018.isti.cnr.it/ |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ast2018 |
Poster | download |
Abstract registration deadline | February 5, 2018 |
Submission deadline | February 11, 2018 |
In software development practice, testing accounts for as much as 50% of the total development effort. It is therefore imperative to reduce the cost and improve the effectiveness of software testing by automating the testing process. In the past decades, a great amount of research effort has been spent on automatic test case generation, automatic test oracles, etc. Test automation is also becoming an important part of software testing practice.
The workshop is the 13th edition of the successful AST workshops held at ICSE conferences. It will provide researchers and practitioners with a forum for exchanging ideas, experiences, understanding of the problems, visions for the future, and promising solutions to the problems. The workshop will also provide a platform for researchers and developers of testing tools to work together to identify the problems in the theory and practice of software test automation and to set an agenda and lay the foundation for future development.
TOPICS OF INTEREST
The workshop focuses on bridging the gap between the theory and practice of software test automation. The topics cover all aspects related to software test automation. In particular, papers on the following topics are covered, but are not limited to:
1) Methodology: Software test automation in the context of various software development methodologies.
2) Technology: Automation of various test techniques and methods for testing related activities, as well as for testing various types of software applications.
3) Tools and environments: Issues in the development, operation, maintenance and evolution of software testing tools and environments, and their integration and inter-operation with other types of software development and maintenance tools and runtime support environments and platforms.
4) Experiments, empirical studies and experience reports: Experiments, empirical studies of software test automation, as well as reports on real experiences in using automated testing techniques, methods and tools in industry.
5) Identification of problems and visions of the future: The identification of problems that hamper wider adoption of automated test techniques, methods and tools and the analysis and specification of the requirements on automated software testing.
The AST 2018 workshop focuses on a special topic of AI for test automation (TA) and TA of AI/Machine-Learning software. Submissions on this topic are especially encouraged, but papers on other topics are also welcome.
Submission Guidelines
Two types of submissions are invited: regular papers and industrial case study papers. The former presents research in the area of software test automation,
while the latter presents practical applications of test automation. Both types of papers are limited to 7 pages in ACM Conference Proceedings Format.
All papers submitted to the workshop must be unpublished original work and should not be under review or submitted elsewhere while being under consideration.
All submissions must be in English and in PDF format through online upload to the workshop submission website at the following URL:
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=AST2018
All submissions will be reviewed by three PC members. Regular papers will be judged on the basis of their clarity, relevance, originality, and contribution. Case study papers will be judged on the basis of their clarity, relevance, and interest to the workshop participants.
Committees
Program Committee
Alexander Pretschner | TU Munich | Germany |
Amit Paradkar | IBM Watson Research Center | USA |
Andrea Polini | Universita di Camerino | Italy |
Atif Memon | University of Maryland | USA |
Benoit Baudry | INRIA / IRISA | France |
Byoungju Choi | Ewha Woman's University | Korea |
Christof J. Budnik | Siemens Corp. Technology | USA |
Dan Hao | Peking University | China. |
Daniel Hoffman | University of Victoria | Canada |
Dianxiang Xu | Dakota State University | USA |
Dimitris Dranidis | CITY College | Greece |
Eric Wong | Univ. of Texas at Dallas | USA |
Fevzi Belli | Paderborn University | Germany |
Francesca Lonetti | CNR-ISTI | Italy |
Gordon Fraser | University of Sheffield | UK |
Gregory Kapfhammer | Allegheny College | USA |
Helene Waeselynck | LAAS | France |
Henry Muccini | University of L'Aquila | Italy |
Howell Yee | MIT | USA |
Hyunsook Do | North Dakota State University | USA |
Jerry Gao | San Jose State University | USA |
John Hughes | Chalmers University of Technology | Sweden |
Judith Bishop | Microsoft Research | USA |
Leonardo Mariani | University of Milano Bicocca | Italy |
Lu Zhang | Peking University | China |
Maria Jose Escalona | University of Seville | Spain |
Mark Harman | University College London | UK |
Myra Cohen | University of Nebraska-Lincoln | USA |
Nikolai Tilmann | Microsoft Research | USA |
Paul Strooper | University of Queensland | Australia |
Rajesh Subramanyan | Siemens | USA |
Saurabh Sinha | IBM Research | USA |
Shay Artzi | IBM | USA |
Shing-chi Cheung | Hong Kong Un. of Science and Tech. | Hong Kong |
T.H. Tse | The University of Hong Kong | Hong Kong |
W. K. Chan | City University of Hong Kong | Hong Kong |
Yves Le Traon | University of Luxembourg | Luxembourg |
Zhenyu Chen | Nanjing University | China |
Breno MIranda | Federal University of Pernambuco | Brazil |
Boni Garcia | Federal University of Pernambuco | Brazil |
Shawn Gao | Midea Emerging Technology Center | USA |
David Weiss | Iowa State | USA |
Ravi Sethi | Univ of Arizona | USA |
Organizing committee
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Prof. Xiaoying Bai,
Tsinghua University,
Beijing, China.
Tel.: +86(010) 62794935,
Email: baixy@tsinghua.edu.cn
Dr. Jenny Li,
Kean University,
Union NJ, USA.
Tel: +1 (908) 737 6155,
Fax: +1 (908) 737 6100,
Email: juli@kean.edu
Dr. Andreas Ulrich,
Siemens AG,
Research and Technology Center
81739 Muenchen, Germany
Tel.: +49 89 636-633586
Fax: +49 89 636-45450
Email:andreas.ulrich@siemens.com
Contact
juli@kean.edu
Antonia Bertolino, ISTI-CNR, Italy (Chair)
antonia.bertolino@isti.cnr.it