Call for Papers: WISEST 2007 Co-Located with ACM ISSTA 2007

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                             CALL FOR PAPERS
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     Workshop on Integrating System Environments into Software Testing
                               (WISEST 2007)

                          London, United Kingdom
                               July 9, 2007

                     http://cs.allegheny.edu/wisest2007/

                         In conjunction with the
   International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA 2007)

                     http://www.cse.unl.edu/issta07/

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  Theme and Goals
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   The Workshop on Integrating System Environments into Software
   Testing (WISEST 2007) establishes the first forum for the
   discussion of software testing and analysis techniques that
   explicitly incorporate the environment of a software system. Since
   a modern software application often interacts with a diverse
   execution environment in a complicated and unpredictable manner,
   there is a clear need for approaches that test an application, an
   application's execution environment, and the interaction between
   the software application and its environment. In light of these
   trends, the overall theme of WISEST 2007 is:

      Improving software testing by integrating execution environments

   The workshop will focus on the testing and analysis of a program
   and an execution environment that contains a wide variety of
   additional hardware and software factors.  The goals of WISEST 2007
   are to:

       - articulate the fundamental research questions associated
       with testing software applications and their execution
       environments

       - support the description and evaluation of innovative
       "environment aware" approaches to software testing

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  Call for Papers
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   WISEST 2007 solicits experience, tool, and research papers that
   explore software testing and analysis techniques that explicitly
   integrate an application's execution environment. It is suggested,
   although not strictly required, that papers discuss environment
   aware approaches to testing and analysis that are related to:

           adequacy criteria, test suite execution, test coverage
           monitoring, automated test data generation, regression
           testing, debugging, automated fault localization, and
           performance evaluation.

   The testing approach should focus on a system environment that
   includes, but is not limited to, factors such as the:

           operating system, computer architecture, database, file
           system, graphical user interface, wireless sensor network,
           distributed system middleware, and virtual machine.

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  Types of Papers
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    - Experience reports should provide practical insights into how to
      use existing approaches to perform testing and analysis in an
      environment aware fashion.

    - Tool papers must focus on the design, implementation, and
      evaluation of environment aware software testing and analysis
      tools.

    - Original research papers will explore novel testing techniques
      that are explicitly designed to incorporate a software system's
      execution environment.

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  Paper Evaluation
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   All papers will undergo a rigorous review by at least three members
   of the Program Committee. All submitted papers will be evaluated
   according to (i) relevance to the workshop themes and goals and
   (ii) clarity and organization. Experience reports will be evaluated
   with respect to the significance and generality of the described
   testing experience. Research and tool papers will be judged by the
   technical merit, novelty, and evaluation of the described technique
   or tool. The results described in the submitted paper must be
   unpublished and should not be under review at other workshops,
   conferences, or journals.

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  Paper Formatting
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   Papers should be formatted using the ACM SIG templates. Including
   all references and figures, a paper must not exceed the six page
   limit. Authors should submit a PDF version of their paper using the
   CyberChairPro affiliated with the ISSTA 2007 conference. More
   details about paper submission will be provided on the WISEST Web
   site.

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  Workshop Proceedings
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   The WISEST 2007 proceedings will be published in a printed volume
   that will be given to participants at the workshop. The complete
   proceedings will also be available for download in the ACM Digital
   Library and the titles of the accepted papers will be listed in the
   print edition of Software Engineering Notes.  The presentations for
   all of the accepted papers will also be provided on the WISEST Web
   site.

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  Important Dates
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   April 20, 2007:      Paper Submission Deadline
   May 25, 2007:        Author Notification
   June 15, 2007:       Camera Ready Copy
   July 9, 2007:        WISEST 2007 Workshop
   July 10-12, 2007:    ISSTA 2007 Conference

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  Workshop Co-Chairs
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   Mary Lou Soffa (University of Virginia)
   Gregory M. Kapfhammer (Allegheny College)

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  Program Committee
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   Bruce Childers     University of Pittsburgh
   Phyllis Frankl     Polytechnic University
   Chandra Krintz     University of California, Santa Barbara
   Phil McMinn        University of Sheffield
   Atif Memon         University of Maryland
   Atanas Rountev     Ohio State University
   Jeffrey Voas       SAIC
   Elaine Weyuker     AT&T Research
   Kamin Whitehouse   University of Virginia

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  More Information
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   Visit the WISEST 2007 Web Site at:

         http://cs.allegheny.edu/wisest2007/

   Email your Questions or Comments to:

         [email protected]

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