7th Workshop on Automated Software Testing (A-TEST), 2016
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.
A-TEST has successfully run 9 editions since 2009. During the 2017 and 2018 editions, that was also co-located at ESEC/FSE, we introduced hands-on sessions where testing tools can be studies in depth. Due to the many positive reactions we received, this year we will have them again!
A-TEST2017 is co-located with the 25th ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering will be held in Paderborn Germany between September 4 and September 8, 2017. For details on the venue and registration click here.
Important Dates
Paper submission deadline: | EXTENDED to May 21 2017 |
Notification: | June 16 2017 |
Camera-ready deadline: | July 3 2017 |
Workshop: | September 2017 |
Final Program
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Organization Committee
A-TEST TEAM
General Chair
Tanja E.J. Vos (Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Open Universiteit)
Program Chairs
Sigrid Eldh (Ericsson)
Wishnu Prasetya (Universiteit van Utrecht)
Programme Committee
Peter M. Kruse
(Berner & Mattner, DE)
M.J. Escalona
(University of Seville, ES)
Ana Paiva
(Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto, PT)
Markus Borg
(SICS Swedish ICT AB, SE)
Anna I Esparcia Alcazar
(Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, ES)
Freek Verbeek
(Open University of The Netherlands, NL)
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=atest2017).
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.
Technology transfer paper (4 pages). Describing a co-operation between University-Industry.
Tool demo
(4 pages) describing your tool and a description of your planned demo-session.
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 2017.
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 2017 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).
Previous Editions
The A-TEST workshop has evolved over the years and has successfully run 6 editions since 2009. The first editions went by the name of ATSE (2009 and 2011) took place at the CISTI (Conference on Information Systems and Technologies, http://www.aisti.eu/). The three subsequent editions (2012, 2013 and 2014) at FEDCSIS (Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems, http://www.fedcsis.org). In 2015 there was an ATSE2015 at SEFM year and an A-TEST2015 at FSE. In 2016 we have decided to merge the events at FSE resulting in the current 7th edition of A-TEST in 2016.