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Call for Papers
FIRST INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON RANDOM TESTING (RT 2006)
co-located with ISSTA 2006
Holiday Inn by the Bay, Portland, Maine, USA, July 17, 2006
http://www.mathematik.uni-ulm.de/sai/jmayer/rt06/
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*** Theme and Goals ***
Testing remains the primary means by which the efficacy of software is
assessed. It is, however, labour-intensive, slow, and highly reliant
on the specialized skills of human testers, in themselves error prone.
The automation of testing processes is therefore a topic of considerable
practical importance; random testing represents a relatively simple and
practical method of doing so, and has been used in a variety of industrial
applications. It is used for many types of testing, from unit debug
testing, to reliability and performance assessments of complete systems.
Its sheer simplicity is also of theoretical interest, as an easily
modelled baseline with which other testing techniques can be compared to.
The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers, engineers,
and practitioners to discuss and evaluate the latest challenges and
breakthroughs in the field of Random Testing and to identify future
trends and problems in this area. The combination of people from both
academia and industry is intended to help on the one hand transferring
problems from industry to academia and on the other hand providing
practical applications for theoretical research results.
*** Topics of interest ***
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
* Strategies for random test case selection
* Test oracles based on random test inputs
* Reliability estimates based on Random Testing results
* Operational profiles guiding Random Testing
* Application of Random Testing to programs with complex input domains,
i.e. random generation of complex inputs
* Influence of pseudo-random numbers on Random Testing
* Application of Random Testing to different test levels (such as system
test, integration test, module test, performance tests, etc.)
* Empirical studies of Random Testing
Papers from academia and industry on original research results
are welcome as well as contributions describing experiences with the
application of Random Testing.
*** Submission and review ***
Papers should be submitted through the online submission system on
the RT 2006 website. See the workshop homepage for formatting and
length restrictions.
All submitted papers will be reviewed by at least two members of the
Program Committee.
Accepted papers will be published in the ISSTA workshop proceedings,
to be published by ACM Press. The proceedings will be on the same CD
as the ISSTA proceedings and will also be available via the
ACM Digital Library. Authors of accepted papers will be
required to sign an ACM copyright form.
Submitted papers must be original, and must not have been previously
published or be under consideration for publication elsewhere.
*** Important Dates ***
Paper submission deadline: March 6, 2006
Author Notification: April 10, 2006
Camera-Ready copy: May 2, 2006
RT 2006 Workshop: July 17, 2006
*** Program Committee and Chairs ***
Program Committee Co-Chairs
Johannes Mayer (Ulm University, Germany)
Robert Merkel (Swinburne University of Technology, Australia)
Program Committee Members
T.Y. Chen (Swinburne University of Technology, Australia)
Walter J. Gutjahr (University of Vienna, Austria)
Dick Hamlet (Portland State University, USA)
Bev Littlewood (City University London, UK)
Michael R. Lyu (Chinese University of Hong Kong, China)
Johannes Mayer (Ulm University, Germany)
Robert Merkel (Swinburne University of Technology, Australia)
Raymond A. Paul (Department of Defense, USA)
Wei-Tak Tsai (Arizona State University, USA)
W. Eric Wong (University of Texas at Dallas, USA)
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