About

A-TEST workshop aims to provide 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 on Automated Testing.

Modern software teams seek a delicate balance between two opposing forces: striving for reliability and striving for agility. Software teams need tools to strike the right balance by increasing the development speed without sacrificing quality. Automated testing tools play an important role in obtaining this balance.

Im­por­tant Dates

Orga­ni­za­tion Com­mit­tee

Pro­gram­me Com­mit­tee

Sheikh Umar Farooq

Peter M. Kruse

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

Submissions

Papers can be submitted through easychair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=atest2016). We expect the following type of papers:

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.

Format

All submissions must be in English and in PDF format. Papers must not exceed the page limits that are listed in the call for papers. At the time of submission all papers must conform to the ACM Format and Submission Guidelines (http://www.acm.org/publications/article-templates/proceedings-template.html) All authors of accepted papers will be asked to complete an electronic ACM Copyright form and will receive further instructions for preparing their camera ready versions. All accepted contributions will be published in the conference electronic proceedings and in the ACM Digital Library Note that the official publication date is the date the proceedings are made available in the ACM Digital Library. This date may be up to two weeks prior to the first day of FSE 2016. The official publication date affects the deadline for any patent filings related to published work. The names and ordering of authors in the camera ready version cannot be modified from the ones in the submitted version – no exceptions! The title can be changed only if required by the reviewers and the new title must be accepted by the workshop chairs. At least one author of each accepted paper must register for the workshop and present the paper at A-TEST 2016 in order for the paper to be published in the proceedings. Papers submitted for consideration to any of the above call for papers should not have been already published elsewhere and should not be under review or submitted for review elsewhere during the duration of consideration. Specifically, authors are required to adhere to the ACM Policy and Procedures on Plagiarism (http://www.acm.org/publications/policies/plagiarism_policy) and the ACM Policy on Prior Publication and Simultaneous Submissions (http://www.acm.org/publications/policies/sim_submissions). All submissions are subject to the ACM Author Representations policy (http://www.acm.org/publications/policies/author_representations).

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