CALL FOR PAPERS

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Software Testing and Automation

Special Session in SEKE 2009

The 21st International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (SEKE'09)

Hyatt Harborside at Logan Int'l Airport, Boston, USA

(URL: http://www.ksi.edu/seke/seke09.html)

With the quick increase of software in complexity and scale, software testing and automation is becoming an emerging and effective solution in software quality assurance to meet tight project schedules with quality. Although many research papers have been published to address software test automation issues and solutions, there are still many open issues, obstacles, and challenges in software testing and automation due to the increasing complexity of the today’s application systems and advance of software technologies. As the paradigm shift in software engineering from object-oriented software construction to model-based, component-based, or SOA-based software construction, new problems and needs must be addressed.

The special session invites researchers and professionals from universities and industry responsible to submit your original papers and experience reports on the state-of-the-art software testing solutions and automation practice.

The interested topics for paper submissions in this invited session include but are not limited to the followings:

• Issues, challenges, solutions, and needs in software test automation and practice
• New software validation problems, solutions, and needs for emerging software applications, such as model-based software construction, or SOA-based system development
• Testing and tools for wireless-based software systems
• Testing and tools for security systems and solutions
• Software test automation tools and solutions for unit testing (black-box and/or white-box)
• Automatic techniques and tools for testing software production lines (such as installation testing, and configuration testing)
• Automatic software regression test techniques and tools
• Model-based software test automation, including models, tools, and techniques
• SOA-based software testing problems, solutions, and tools
• User-oriented software test automation methods, tools, and experience
• Requirement specification based software test automation techniques, solutions, and experience
• Program-based software test automation methods, tools, and experience
• Language-based software test automation techniques and tools
• Test-Driven-Development techniques and project experience
• Software test automation cost analysis and complex measurement
• Innovative software test infrastructures, test languages, test patterns, test scripting techniques, and tools
• Automatic software performance evaluation and reliability measurement
• Automatic software test coverage analysis and monitoring
• Code coverage analysis and success metrics & measurement for software test automation
• System load testing tools and performance evaluation techniques
• Software simulation and tools for software auto-testing
• Software test automation case studies, empirical studies,, project experience and lessons learned

INFORMATION FOR AUTHORS

If you submit your paper(s) to the special session on Software Measure, please select the "Gao and Bari, Software Testing and Automation" in the "Paper Type" menu appeared in the Paper Submission Form (http://conf.ksi.edu/seke09/submit/SubmitPaper.php).

TRACK ORGANIZERS

Jerry Gao (jerrygao@email.sjsu.edu), San Jose State University, USA.

Emese Bari (ebari@ebay.com) , eBay, USA.

If you have any questions regarding the special session or whether your research fits into the focus of the special session, don't hesitate to contact the organizer.

IMPORTANT DATES

• Paper submission due: March 23, 2009 (Firm)
• Notification of acceptance: April 15, 2009
• Camera-ready copy: May 1, 2009