VST 2020

3rd International Workshop on Validation, Analysis and Evolution of Software Tests

February 18, 2020 - co-located with SANER 2020, London, Ontario, Canada
http://vst2020.scch.at/

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  Software projects accumulate large sets of test cases, encoding valuable expert 
  knowledge about the software under test to the extent of many person years. 
  Over time the reliability of the tests decreases, and they become difficult to 
  understand and maintain. Extra effort is required for repairing broken tests 
  and for adapting test suites and models to evolving software systems.

  The International Workshop on Validation, Analysis and Evolution of Software 
  Tests (VST) is an unique event bringing together academics, industrial 
  researchers, and practitioners for exchanging experiences, solutions and new 
  ideas in applying methods, techniques and tools from software analysis, 
  evolution and reengineering to advance the state of the art in test 
  development and maintenance.

  Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

  * Test minimization and simplification
  * Fault localization and automated repair
  * Change analysis for software tests
  * Test visualization and validation
  * Documentation analysis
  * Bug report analysis
  * Test evolution
  * Test case generation
  * Model-based testing
  * Combinations of the topics above

 
Submission:

  We encourage submission of papers on the topics mentioned above: Full papers (8 pages 
  maximum), position papers and tool demonstration papers (2 to 4 pages maximum).
  Papers must conform to the IEEE proceedings paper format guidelines. If the paper is 
  accepted, at least one author must attend the workshop and present the paper. Accepted 
  papers will be published in the IEEE Digital Library along with the SANER proceedings.

  Submission is done via EasyChair(https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=vst2020).


Important dates:

  Paper submission deadline:     December 20, 2019 AoE
  Notification of acceptance:    January  10, 2020
  Camera-ready version due:      January  14, 2020


Program chairs:

  Martin Pinzger, Alpen-Adria Universitaet Klagenfurt, Austria
  Rudolf Ramler, Software Competence Center Hagenberg, Austria


Program committee:

  Emil Alegroth, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden
  Arpad Beszedes, University of Szeged, Hungary
  Serge Demeyer, University of Antwerp, Belgium
  Vahid Garousi, Queen's University Belfast, United Kingdom
  Takashi Kitamura, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan
  Christian Macho, Alpen-Adria Universität Klagenfurt, Austria			
  Sebastiano Panichella, Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland
  Fiorella Zampetti, University of Sannio, Italy
  Andy Zaidman, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands