ICTSS 2018: 30th International Conference on Testing Software and Systems Cádiz, Spain, October 1-3, 2018 |
Conference website | http://ictss2018.uca.es |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ictss2018 |
Abstract registration deadline | May 21, 2018 |
Submission deadline | May 27, 2018 |
IFIP ICTSS is a series of international conferences addressing the conceptual, theoretic, and practical problems of testing software systems, including communication protocols, services, distributed platforms, middleware, embedded- and cyber-physical systems, and security infrastructures. ICTSS is the successor of the previous (joint) conferences TESTCOM and FATES and aims to be a forum in which researchers, developers, testers, and users can review and discuss new approaches, concepts, theories, methodologies, tools, and experiences in the field of testing of software and systems.
Important dates
Deadline for industrial day proposals May 4, 2018
Deadline for submission of abstracts May 21, 2018
Deadline for submission of papers May 27, 2018
Author notification July 1, 2018
Camera-ready July 15, 2018
Scope
Topics of interests include, but are not limited to:
- Aspects of testing: test derivation, test selection, test coverage, test implementation and execution, test result analysis, test oracles, test management, monitoring and runtime verification, test frameworks.
- Model-based testing: Formal models and modelling languages such as automata, state machines, process algebra, logics, UML, HOL,Markov-chains, test generation from models, model coverage.
- Combination of techniques: Techniques that demonstrate how to combine testing and formal (modelbased) verification and analysis to improve quality and reduce effort.
- Quality aspects: Functional, interoperability, performance, conformance, security, reliability, robustness, etc.
- Application areas: Communicating systems such as protocols, middleware, networks, web services, cloud computing systems, wireless applications, control systems, business information systems, embedded and real-time software, software product lines, etc.
- Combinations of different testing techniques: In particular, combination of techniques for the automated generation of test data.
- Tools and methods: Automated support of any parts of the testing activities, testing processes, testdriven development, sound metrics andmeasurements.
- Case studies: Case studies and industrial applications involving qualified empirical evaluations.
Submission
ICTSS 2018 welcomes:
- Presentation proposals for the industrial day (up to 500 word abstract in plain text format) on industrial projects, academia-industry collaboration, or knowledge transfer.
- Short papers (up to 6 pages in Springer LNCS format) describing work in progress, a small piece of complete work, or a short industrial experience.
- Full papers (up to 16 pages in Springer LNCS format) describing either original research results, or case studies and empirical studies in an industrial context on new testing methodologies and industrial best practices.
Abstracts corresponding to presentation proposals for the industrial day should be sent by e-mail.
Each paper submission will be reviewed by at least three members of the ICTSS Programme Committee. All contributions to ICTSS 2018 have to be submitted electronically in PDF format via EasyChair and have to follow the Springer LNCS format. The submission type must be stated explicitly by the authors upon
submission via the conference website. The submission type influences the review criteria. Accepted contributions must be presented at the conference.
Publication
The proceedings of the conferencewill be published in Springer’s LectureNotes in Computer Science series, and therefore exported to all major indexing databases as ISI (Web of Science), Scopus, DBLP, ACM Digital Library, etc. ICTSS 2018 is supported by IFIP and Springer. For more information, please consult our official
website.
Springer publishes accepted full papers in their LNCS series. Accepted short papers will also be published in the same LNCS volume in a separate section. Authors need to sign a copyright transfer form to transfer usage rights on their papers to IFIP and Springer. Following the conference, the authors of the best manuscripts will be invited to extend their papers into full journal papers for a Special Section of the Journal of Information and Software Technology.