Dear software evolution researcher, consider to submit your research to BENEVOL 2020 ! There is still some time. See below.
Tom Mens
From: Michail PAPADAKIS <michail.papadakis(a)uni.lu>
Date: Saturday, 31 October 2020 at 12:13
Dear BENEVOL friends,
I am coming back to you to let you know that we decided to extend the paper submission deadline by one week; November 6, 2020.
Please consider contributing.
Important Days:
Submission deadline - Technical Papers: Friday November 6, 2020
Submission deadline - Presentation Abstracts: Friday November 13, 2020
Author notification: Wednesday November 18
Event Website: https://benevol2020.github.io/
Thanks,
--
Mike Papadakis, PhD
Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SnT)
University of Luxembourg
https://sites.google.com/site/mikepapadakis
Dear colleague,
My department is currently looking for 2 new professors (any level) in the areas of :
1. Computer Science Applied to Life Sciences : https://jobs.uclouvain.be/PersonnelAcademique/job/An-academic-position-in-C… <https://jobs.uclouvain.be/PersonnelAcademique/job/An-academic-position-in-C…>
2. Safety Critical Embedded Systems : https://jobs.uclouvain.be/PersonnelAcademique/job/An-academic-position-in-S… <https://jobs.uclouvain.be/PersonnelAcademique/job/An-academic-position-in-S…>
Application deadline: Monday, November 16, 2020 at noon
Starting date: 1st September, 2021
If you know everyone who may be interested in one of these positions, please forward this information to them.
Thanks in advance for your help.
Friendly greetings,
Kim Mens
Professor in Computer Science
UCLouvain / ICTEAM / INGI
Bâtiment Réaumur, Etage 01, Bureau A111
Place Sainte Barbe 2 / L5.02.01
1348 Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgique
firstname_dot_lastname(a)uclouvain.be <mailto:firstname_dot_lastname@uclouvain.be>
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• INGI department chair
• ICTEAM institute vice-president
• Informatics Europe board member
• Science of Computer Programming Editorial Board
• Journal of Object Technology Editorial Board
• SATToSE Seminar Steering Committee Chair
• Commission d’Equivalence Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles
• Commission Jury Bourses FRIA
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I would like to inform you about the IEEE VISSOFT conference program as it
starts next week and also has a separate session on software evolution.
Registrations are still possible!
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8th IEEE Working Conference on Software Visualization (VISSOFT 2020)
September 28-29, 2020, Online
http://vissoft20.dcc.uchile.cl/
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The IEEE VISSOFT 2020 Program is now available. 15 papers, One keynote
presentation, and one Most Influential Paper Award presentation.
It should be an exciting couple of days online. The conference will be held
via https://www.clowdr.org/. More information will follow soon on our website
and Twitter.
You have to register to attend the online conference! Please refer to
https://icsme2020.github.io/registration.html for any additional details
and updates. There are discounts if you also want to participate in ICSME
and SCAM, which are co-held.
PROGRAM OVERVIEW
Full program: https://vissoft20.dcc.uchile.cl/program.html
# September 28
Session 1: Software Evolution
Session 2: Development Environments
Session 3: Software Metrics and Maintenance
Keynote: Tim Dwyer - Network Visualisation and Immersive Analytics
# September 29
Session 1: Human Activity
Session 2: Program Understanding
Awards and MIP Talk
Townhall Meeting (Open Steering Committee Meeting)
https://vissoft20.dcc.uchile.cl/program.html
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About IEEE VISSOFT 2020
Software visualization is a broad research area whose general goal is
to enhance and promote the theory, realization, and evaluation of
approaches to visually encode and analyze software systems, including
software development practices, evolution, structure, and software
runtime behavior. Software visualization is inherently
interdisciplinary, drawing on theories and techniques from information
visualization and computer graphics and applying these in the software
engineering domain.
The VISSOFT conference is a venue for publishing and discussing
research related to software visualization. VISSOFT brings together a
community of researchers from software engineering, information
visualization, computer graphics, human-computer interaction, and data
science to discuss theoretical foundations, algorithms, techniques,
tools, and applications related to the visualization of software.
VISSOFT 2020, co-held with ICSME 2020, encourages a variety of
submissions that address outstanding challenges in software systems
using visualization. This includes technical papers, empirical
studies, applications, case studies, and papers that present novel
ideas and tools.
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Stay safe & we hope to see you at VISSOFT 2020!
Best,
Craig Anslow (General Chair)
Andreas Schreiber and Takashi Ishio (Program Co-Chairs)
https://twitter.com/IEEEVISSOFT
20th IEEE International Working Conference on Source Code Analysis and Manipulation - New Ideas and Emerging Results (NIER) track
http://www.ieee-scam.org/2020/#niercall
==== CALL FOR PAPERS ====
The SCAM New Ideas and Emerging Results (NIER) track is looking for submissions. Do you have a new idea that you’d like to present and discuss with the SCAM community? Are there challenges to pursuing a new line of research that could be ameliorated through discussion with other scientists? Then you should submit to the SCAM NIER track! We aim to foster a forum for discussion of new ideas and challenges in the area of source code analysis and manipulation.
We welcome the submission of papers that describe original and significant work in the field of source code analysis and manipulation. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- program transformation and refactoring
- static and dynamic analysis
- natural language analysis of source code artifacts
- repository, revision, and change analysis
- source-level metrics
- decompilation
- bug location and prediction
- security vulnerability analysis
- source-level testing and verification
- clone detection
- concern, concept, and feature localization and mining
- program comprehension
- bad smell detection
- abstract interpretation
- program slicing
- source-level optimization
- energy efficient source code
Important Dates:
**All submission dates are at 23:59 AoE (Anywhere on Earth, UTC-12)**
Abstract Deadline: August 14th, 2020
Paper Deadline: August 21st, 2020
Author Notification: September 16th, 2020
Program Committee:
Mike Papadakis, University of Luxembourg
Michael J. Decker, Bowling Green State University
Boyang Li, ABB Robotic R&D Center
Zhe Yu, North Carolina State University
Dario Di Nucci, Jheronimus Academy of Data Science
Tukaram Muske, TCS Research
Fabio Palomba, University of Salerno
Marouane Kessentini, University of Michigan
Damian Andrew Tamburri, Technical University of Eindhoven - Jeronimus Academy of Data Science
Igor Steinmacher, Northern Arizona University
Naser Ezzati-Jivan, Brock University
Jesus Gonzalez-Barahona, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos
Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer, Rochester Institute of Technology
Alexander Serebrenik, Eindhoven University of Technology
Jonathan Maletic, Kent State University
Diomidis Spinellis, Athens University of Economics and Business
Bram Adams, Queen's University
We eagerly await your submission!
Best regards,
SCAM 2020 NIER track Co-chairs
Eleni Constantinou, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands
Christian Newman, Rochester Institute of Technology, USA
13th Seminar Series on Advanced Techniques & Tools for Software Evolution.
http://sattose.org/2020
July 1-2, 2020
Virtual Conference
Overview:
The 13th edition of SATToSE will be held virtually (originally planned to take place in Amsterdam) on 1-2 July 2020. Past editions of SATToSE saw presentations on software visualisation techniques, tools for co-evolving various software artefacts, their consistency management, runtime adaptability and context-awareness, as well as empirical results about software evolution.
The goal of SATToSE is to gather both undergraduate and graduate students to showcase their research, exchange ideas, improve their communication skills, attend and contribute technology showdown and hackathons.
Keynotes:
SATToSE 2020 will host 2 keynotes, one on July 1st and one on July 2nd by Anne Etien and Tom Mens.
Venue/Program:
All sessions will take place on Zoom (provided by the University of Amsterdam). You can find a tentative program and accepted papers on the SATToSE website.
Hackathon:
The Software Improvement Group (SIG)<https://www.softwareimprovementgroup.com/> will host the SATToSE 2020 hackathon with call graph data in the context of the FASTEN project<https://www.fasten-project.eu/view/Main/>. More information will follow soon.
Registration:
The registration link can be found under Registration at http://sattose.org/2020. SATToSE 2020 will be a virtual event, meaning that there is no registration cost. However, registration is necessary to participate to SATToSE 2020.
Organization
General Chair: Ana Oprescu, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Program Chair: Eleni Constantinou, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
Hackathon Chair: Magiel Bruntink, SIG, The Netherlands
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8th IEEE Working Conference on Software Visualization (VISSOFT 2020)
September 28-29, 2020, Adelaide, Australia
http://vissoft20.dcc.uchile.cl/
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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
Software visualization is a broad research area whose general goal is
to enhance and promote the theory, realization, and evaluation of
approaches to visually encode and analyze software systems, including
software development practices, evolution, structure, and software
runtime behavior. Software visualization is inherently
interdisciplinary, drawing on theories and techniques from information
visualization and computer graphics and applying these in the software
engineering domain.
The VISSOFT conference is a venue for publishing and discussing
research related to software visualization. VISSOFT brings together a
community of researchers from software engineering, information
visualization, computer graphics, human-computer interaction, and data
science to discuss theoretical foundations, algorithms, techniques,
tools, and applications related to the visualization of software.
VISSOFT 2020, co-held with ICSME 2020, encourages a variety of
submissions that address outstanding challenges in software systems
using visualization. This includes technical papers, empirical
studies, applications, case studies, and papers that present novel
ideas and tools.
======================================
TOPICS OF INTEREST
- Innovative visualization and visual analytics techniques for
analysis of software engineering data. This includes source code,
dependencies, repositories, developer social networks such as
StackOverflow and GitHub, mobile app reviews, documentation,
runtime logs, and DevOps data.
- Visualization to support software development activities,
including design, requirements engineering, program comprehension,
software testing, and debugging.
- Interaction techniques and algorithms for software visualization.
- Visualization-based techniques in software engineering education.
- Integration of software visualization tools with development
environments.
- Empirical evaluation of software visualizations, including eye
tracking.
- Industrial experience with using software visualization.
- Applications of new technologies to enhance software
visualization, including virtual reality, augmented/mixed reality,
gamification, and artificial intelligence.
- Analytical approaches to understand software-related aspects based
on data science concepts.
We solicit papers that present original, unpublished research results.
Papers will be rigorously reviewed by an international program
committee. In addition to technical papers, VISSOFT features a New
Ideas or Emerging Results (NIER) track and a Tool Demonstrations (TD)
track. All accepted submissions will appear in the conference
proceedings and the IEEE Digital Library.
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SUBMISSION TYPES
**Technical papers**:
A technical paper contribution must describe an in-depth and mature
research result relevant to software visualization. The content of a
technical paper can be at a maximum 10 pages long (including all
figures, tables, and appendices). However, the 10 page limit does not
include the bibliography, which is limited by two additional pages.
The submission of a video (up to 5 minutes in length) to accompany the
paper is highly encouraged to show interaction possibilities. Authors
who wish to submit a video can submit the video together with their
paper if the size of the video is smaller than 50 MB, otherwise a URL
to the video should be provided.
After the notification, authors can also submit an artifact (tool,
data, model, etc.)
Submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=vissoft2020
**NIER/TD Track**:
The NIER/TD Track of VISSOFT accepts two types of contributions: New
Ideas and Emerging Results (NIER) and Tool Demonstrations (TD). Both
NIER and TD contributions have a page limit of 5 (including
bibliography).
NIER contributions describe work-in-progress and preliminary exciting
results. Authors are encouraged to include open questions and even
provocative hypotheses to get early feedback on their research ideas.
A sound evaluation is not required for NIER contributions. One of the
goals of the NIER Track is to foster collaboration among different
research groups.
Tool Demonstrations describe the design or actual utilization of
software visualization tools, with a focus on the architecture of the
tool or its use to gain new insights. During the conference, we will
organize an informal tool demonstration session where authors of TD
papers are requested to demonstrate their tools. The submission may
also contain a link to a screencast (e.g., YouTube or Vimeo) to show
the interaction possibilities offered by the tool.
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IMPORTANT DATES
Abstract submission: June 22, 2020
Technical paper submission: June 26, 2020
NIER/TD paper submission: June 26, 2020
Artifact submission: August 1, 2020
Author notification: July 24, 2020
Camera-Ready: August 7, 2020
Conference date: September 28-29, 2020
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**Statement on COVID-19 (Coronavirus)**
The VISSOFT Organizing Committee is aware of the current COVID-19
situation. At this time, the conference is planned to take place as
scheduled. The committee will continue monitoring conditions and will
provide updates if plans change.
Stay safe & we hope to see you at VISSOFT 2020!
Best,
Craig Anslow (General Chair)
Andreas Schreiber and Takashi Ishio (Program Co-Chairs)
https://twitter.com/IEEEVISSOFT
SATToSE 2020
13th Seminar Series on Advanced Techniques & Tools for Software Evolution
http://sattose.org/2020
July 1 - 3, 2020
Virtual event
Overview:
The 13th edition of SATToSE will be held virtually (originally planned to take place in Amsterdam) on July 1-3, 2020. Past editions of SATToSE saw presentations on software visualisation techniques, tools for co-evolving various software artefacts, their consistency management, runtime adaptability and context-awareness, as well as empirical results about software evolution.
The goal of SATToSE is to gather both undergraduate and graduate students to showcase their research, attend and contribute technology showdown and hackathons, exchange ideas and learn from senior/established researchers, as well help them improve their communication skills.
Call for Papers:
Contributions are solicited on all aspects of software and model evolution, practices, and technologies. In particular, we encourage submissions about the following (non-exhaustive) list of topics:
- Supporting tools, processes, and models for managing software evolution
- Industrial needs, case studies and experiences
- Software analytics and visualisation techniques to support software evolution
- Empirical studies in evolution and maintenance
- Program transformation, refactoring, renovation, and migration
- Program and/or data reverse engineering
- Evolution of data-intensive or process-intensive systems
- Approaches of model-driven software evolution
- Software evolution for emerging paradigms
- Coupled evolution of meta-models, models, and transformations
- Classification of evolution scenarios
- Reliability and security aspects of software evolution
- Negative research results in software evolution
- Software ecosystem evolution
- Formalisms, notations, theories, methods, and languages for expressing software evolution
- Conformance checking, inconsistency management, synchronisation, differencing, comparison, versioning, impact analysis of evolving models
SaTToSE 2020 aims to increase the interaction between PhD students and more experienced researchers. For this reason, SATToSE will introduce for the first time the “mentor” concept. Each PhD student submitting a Work-in-Progress paper will have a senior member as a mentor during the seminar (different than their PhD supervisor). The goal is to stimulate discussion between PhD students and senior researchers to provide feedback on their research and promote discussions and collaborations.
Important Dates:
Submission deadline: May 13, 2020
Notification of acceptance: June 4, 2020
Registration deadline (no registration fees, but registration is required): June 12, 2020
Camera-ready deadline: June 12, 2020
Seminar: July 1 - 3, 2020
Organisation Committee:
- General Chair: Ana Oprescu, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Program Chair: Eleni Constantinou, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
Program Committee:
Maurício Aniche, Delft University of Technology
Gemma Catolino, Delft University of Technology
Alexandre Decan, University of Mons
Felipe Ebert, Eindhoven University of Technology
Vasiliki Efstathiou, Athens University of Economics and Business
Anne Etien, CRIStAL - University of Lille
Clemens Grelck, University of Amsterdam
Verena Herbold, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
Maria Kechagia, University College London
Cristina Marinescu, Politehnica University Timisoara
Lina María Ochoa Venegas, Centrum Winskunde & Informatica
Gregorio Robles, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos
Tushar Sharma, Athens University of Economics and Business
Ioana Sora, Politehnica University of Timisoara
UCLouvain invites applications for a tenure track or tenured full time position in Computer Science
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Vacancy Reference : 23958 / EPL 074 / 2020 (to be quoted in any correspondence)
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Introduction
UCLouvain is a comprehensive university offering, in the context of the present position, the opportunity of cross-disciplinary research and teaching collaborations. The position is attached to the Louvain School of Engineering and the Institute of Information and Communication Technologies, Electronics and Applied Mathematics that offer opportunities for diverse and stimulating teaching as well as an environment to carry out ambitious research. The Louvain-la-Neuve site offers a unique modern living environment inside a naturally preserved neighbourhood, conveniently located to the heart of Europe. The Charleroi site offers a quality environment in higher education, at the heart of a region in full economic development, centred on new technologies.
Description of the mission
Teaching
The successful candidate will be involved in the implementation and teaching of a new bachelor's degree in computer science being created on the site of Charleroi, as well as in teaching in the computer science degrees at Louvain-la-Neuve, in particular the bachelor of computer science, the master in computer science engineering and the master in computer science. Bachelor level courses are taught mainly in French, master level courses exclusively in English.
Research
The successful candidate will develop his or her research activities in the main research domains in computer science at the ICTEAM institute, thus facilitating his or her integration within the existing team:
• Software Systems and Networks
• Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
• Software Engineering and Programming Systems
Experience in application areas such as medicine or life sciences will be considered an asset.
Nevertheless, this list should not be considered exhaustive; the position remains open to candidates with strong skills in other areas of computer science as well.
Specific qualifications
The involvement in the creation of a new bachelor’s degree in computer science should be seen by the candidate as a unique opportunity to increase the visibility and development of computing in Belgium and the city of Charleroi in particular.
Given the involvement in the creation and teaching of the bachelor’s degree in computer science in Charleroi, knowledge of the French language, spoken and written, is essential.
Practical Information
Application deadline: 3rd February 2020
Deadline for recommandation letters: 14th February 2020
Starting date: 1st September, 2020
Further information :
Prof. Michel Verleysen, Dean EPL – doyen-epl(a)uclouvain.be<mailto:doyen-epl@uclouvain.be>
Prof. Jean-Didier Legat, President ICTM – president-ictm(a)uclouvain.be<mailto:president-ictm@uclouvain.be>
Localization: Science and Technology Sector
Louvain School of Engineering (EPL) (https://uclouvain.be/en/faculties/<https://uclouvain.be/en/faculties/%5b%5bsiglefaculte>EPL)
Institute of Information and Communication Technologies, Electronics and Applied Mathematics (ICTM) (https://uclouvain.be/en/research-institutes/<https://uclouvain.be/en/research-institutes/%5b%5binstitutpubli>Institute of Information and Communication Technologies, Electronics and Applied Mathematics)
General conditions
Tasks : the applicant will:
- Be responsible for teaching courses at all study levels (i.e. undergraduate and postgraduate), as well as in programmes of continuing education;
- Supervise the final diploma research (i.e. theses) of undergraduate and graduate students, as well as PhD theses;
- Be involved in (and/or supervise, promote) research programmes;
- Contribute to the international visibility of the University through teaching and research excellence;
- Be available to carry out, in the long term, different service activities and responsibilities within the University and its entities;
- Contribute to activities of the University with a societal impact in the fields of the economy, socio-cultural changes or cooperation with developing countries.
Qualifications : the applicant must have
- A PhD degree in sciences or engineering, orientation computer science or any related discipline;
- A significant scientific record with international publications;
- Either studied abroad for an extensive period or have had substantial experience outside his or her university of origin;
- Experience in and the aptitude for teaching at university level, demonstrated if possible by formal assessments;
- The capacity to work within a team of teachers and to integrate research findings into teaching;
- Creativity and must be open to teaching innovation and interdisciplinarity;
- The capacities required to undertake high-level academic research: capacity to raise research funds, to supervise projects, to animate and lead a research team;
- Team management and communication skills;
- Be proficient in French (spoken and written) and, if possible, in English. For the latter, a commitment will be required to acquire it within two years of taking office, in order to be able to communicate and teach in this language. Knowledge of other languages is an additional asset.
Offer
The level of recruitment (appointment to the rank of lecturer or professor) will be discussed if a proposal is made to you, in connection with your previous academic experience. For more information, see: jobs.uclouvain.be.<https://www.jobs.uclouvain.be>
Our HR policy supports equal opportunities and diversity including in the academic career. Attention is also paid to reconciliation of private life and professional life.
SoHeal 2020: 3rd International Workshop on Software Health
1-day Workshop, May 25, 2020 (Monday)
Seoul, South Korea - co-located with ICSE 2020
https://soheal.github.io/https://twitter.com/iw_soheal
IMPORTANT DATES
- Submission deadline: January 22, 2020
- Notification of acceptance: February 25, 2020
- Camera Ready for accepted position papers: March 16, 2020
- Workshop: May 25, 2020
As can be witnessed by recent initiatives such as the Linux
Foundation's CHAOSS project (https://chaoss.community/) on community
health analytics, and the SECO-ASSIST (https://secoassist.github.io/)
research project realized the need for a socio-technical perspective
concerning software health. SoHeal aims to enable and promote
collaboration between academia and industry, unifying the views on
software health of researchers and practitioners. The workshop's goals
are to: (1) raise awareness of practitioners' problems with software
health; (2) familiarize practitioners with the progress made by
academia; and (3) connect the two communities to further advance the
body of knowledge and state of the practice on software health.
Software Health can vary depending on the viewpoint of the involved
stakeholders: process factors, technical factors concerning the source
code and related software artefacts, social factors concerning the
communities of software contributors and users, and business factors
concerning commercial aspects of the software product. Software health
encompasses many development and evolution attributes, including
success, longevity, growth, resilience, survival, diversity, and
sustainability. Topics for contributions on software health include but are not limited to:
- technical health issues (e.g., library updates, breaking changes,
vulnerabilities);
- social health aspects (e.g., sustainability, onboarding,
collaboration, coordination);
- empirical qualitative and/or quantitative studies on software health;
- theoretical frameworks and methodological approaches to measure,
assess, and monitor software health at the individual, team,
organizational, or community level of granularity;
- prediction and/or recommendation models to forecast software
ecosystems issues or improve their health;
- dashboards and tools to analyse and visualise health-related factors;
- evolution of software ecosystems and their health;
- experiences with developing and/or relying on software ecosystems in
industry, open-source or the public sector
- studies concerning the legal, process, or business aspects.
CALL FOR TALK PROPOSALS:
We invite talk proposal contributions of up to 2 pages (including
figures, tables, and references) reporting on practitioners or
industrial experience. Proposals need to be submitted through HotCRP
(https://soheal2020.hotcrp.com/) and will be peer-reviewed, on the
basis of an abstract of the talk and the author's biography. All
accepted proposals will be presented during the workshop.
CALL FOR RESEARCH PAPERS
We invite position papers of up to 8 pages (including figures, tables,
and references), to be submitted through HotCRP
(https://soheal2020.hotcrp.com/). All submissions will peer-reviewed.
Formatting instructions are available at
https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template for both LaTeX
and Word users. LaTeX users must use the provided acmart.cls and
ACM-Reference-Format.bs without modification, enable the conference
format in the preamble of the document (i.e.,
\documentclass[sigconf,review]{acmart}), and use the ACM reference
format for the bibliography (i.e.,
\bibliographystyle{ACM-Reference-Format}). The review option adds line
numbers, thereby allowing referees to refer to specific lines in their
comments.
All accepted contributions will be presented during the workshop, but
only position papers will be included in the proceedings. The official
publication date of the workshop proceedings is the date the
proceedings are made available in the ACM Library. This date may be up
to two weeks prior to the first day of ICSE 2020. The official
publication date affects the deadline for any patent filings related
to published work. All submissions should provide unpublished and
original work that has not been previously accepted for publication
nor concurrently submitted for review in another workshop, conference,
journal or book. If the submission is accepted, at least one author
must attend the workshop and present the paper in order to include the
paper in the proceedings.
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
********************
Eleni Constantinou, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
Dario Di Nucci, Tilburg University / JADS, The Netherlands
Raula Gaikovina Kula, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan
Henrique Rocha, University of Antwerp, Belgium
The deadline is right after the X-mas holiday so best to prepare your position papers now.
--Serge Demeyer
NEXTA 2020 - 3rd IEEE Workshop on NEXt level of Test Automation
http://www.testomatproject.eu/nexta2020
March 23rd, 2020, Porto, Portugal
Co-located with IEEE International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation (ICST 2020)
+++ Important Dates +++
Abstract Submission: January 6, 2020
Submission: January 13, 2020
Notification: January 27, 2020
Camera ready: February 4, 2020
Workshop: March 23, 2020
+++ Theme and Goals +++
NEXTA'20 is the third edition of the IEEE Workshop on Test Automation - highly relevant for both research and industry. Thus, NEXTA aims to attract both academic researchers and industry practitioners.
Test automation has been an acknowledged software engineering best practice for years. However, the topic involves more than the repeated execution of test cases that often comes first to mind. Simply running test cases using a unit testing framework is no longer enough for test automation to keep up with the ever-shorter release cycles driven by continuous deployment and technological innovations such as microservices and DevOps pipelines. Now test automation needs to rise to the next level by going beyond mere test execution.
The NEXTA workshop will explore how to advance test automation to further contribute to software quality in the context of tomorrow's rapid release cycles. Take-aways for industry practitioners and academic researchers will encompass test case generation, automated test result analysis, test suite assessment and maintenance, and infrastructure for the future of test automation.
+++ Topics of Interest +++
NEXTA solicits contributions targeting all aspects of test automation, from initial test design to automated verdict analysis. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
+ Test execution automation
+ Test case generation
+ Automatic test design generation
+ Analytics, learning and big data in relation to test automation
+ Automatic aspects management in test, progress, reporting, planning etc.
+ Visualization of test
+ Evolution of test automation
+ Test suite architecture and infrastructure
+ Test environment, simulation, and other contextual issues for automated testing
+ Test tools, frameworks, and general support for test automation
+ Testing in an agile and continuous integration context, and testing within DevOps
+ Orchestration of test
+ Metrics, benchmarks, and estimation on any type of test automation
+ Any type of test technologies relying on automation of test
+ Process improvements and assessments related to test automation
+ Test automation maturity and experience reports on test automation
+ Automatic retrieval of test data and test preparation aspect
+ Maintainability, monitoring and refactoring of automated test suites
+ Training and education on automated testing
+ Automated test for product lines and high-variability systems
+ Test automation patterns
+ Automated test oracle
+++ Submission and Proceedings +++
NEXTA solicits the following types of original papers:
+ Technical Papers (max. 8 pages in IEEE format). Full papers presenting research results or industrial practices related to the next generation of test automation.
+ Position and Experience Papers (max. 4 pages in IEEE format). Short papers introducing challenges, visions, positions or preliminary results within the scope of the workshop. Experience reports and papers on open challenges in industry are especially welcome.
+ Tool Papers (max. 4 pages in IEEE format). Tool papers introduce tools that implement an approach to support the transition to the next generation of test automation. A tool paper submission must include either 1) a URL to a screencast of the tool in action, or 2) a runnable version of the tool for evaluation by the program committee.
Authors should submit a PDF version of their paper through the NEXTA 2020 paper submission site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=nexta2020.
All accepted papers will be part of the ICST joint workshop proceedings published in the IEEE Digital Library.
+++ Organization and Contact +++
+ Serge Demeyer, University of Antwerp, Belgium, General Chair
+ Adnan Causevic, Mälardalen University (MDH), Sweden, (Program Co-Chair)
+ Pasqualina Potena, RISE Research Institutes of Sweden AB, Sweden (Program Co-Chair)
+ Kristian Wiklund, Ericsson AB, Sweden (Program Co-Chair)
If you have any questions or require more information on NEXTA 2019, please visit http://www.testomatproject.eu/nexta2020 or write to nexta2020(a)easychair.org<mailto:nexta2020@easychair.org>.
+++ Program Committee (to be extended) +++
+ Adnan Causevic, Mälardalen University, Sweden
+ Pasqualina Potena, RISE Research Institutes of Sweden AB, Sweden
+ Kristian Wiklund, Ericsson AB, Sweden
+ Markus Borg, RISE Research Institutes of Sweden AB, Sweden
+ Sigrid Eldh, Ericsson AB, Sweden
+ Serge Demeyer, University of Antwerp, Belgium
+ Tanja Vos, Universidad Politecnica Valencia, Spain and Open University Netherlands
+ Marc-Florian Wendland, Fraunhofer Fokus, Germany
+ Michael van der Bijl, Axini, Netherlands
+ Leire Etxeberria Elorza, University de Mondragon, Spain
+ Karl Meinke, The Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
+ Mika Mantyla, University of Oulu
+ Peter M. Krause; Expleo, Germany
+ Magnus C Ohlsson, System Verification, Sweden
+ Pekka Aho, VTT, Finland Rix Groenboom, Parasoft, Germany
