InSTA 2011 - International Workshop on Software Test Architecture (InSTA)

It's necessary to raise the reliability and satisfaction of the software in recent years, and the software has been large scale and complexity. In software development, as one of their solutions, the idea has came out which improves the quality by emphasizing higher-level design using a concept as software architecture. The advantages are that the design concept can be communicated, the productivity can be increased by raising level of abstraction, the reusability can be increased, the overall of the software can be grasped, and so on. It becomes necessary for software testing to cope with high reliability, large-scale, and complex software. In software testing, a key word as test design exists. However, nothing (eg, diagrams, notations, etc.) has many roles to communicate the design concept, to increase the productivity by raising level of abstraction, to increase the reusability, to grasp the overall of the software. By centering a concept as test architecture, the discussion to raise the quality of the test is needed. For example, a concept as test architecture is shown directly in U2TP. Test architecture would be treated indirectly as a part of the test strategy. Some organizations which establish the way to design test architecture originally exist. Thus, common understanding to a concept as test architecture has not been obtained. Hence, this workshop where the concept as test architecture is argued comprehensively with researchers and practitioners has been established this time.

Keywords
Concept of software test architecture
High-level design of software testing
"Test types and test levels" level design
Overview of over millions of software test cases
Diagrams, notations, description languages, metamodela and ontologies for software test architecture
Relationship of software test strategy and software test architecture
Software test requirement analysis and models
Software test architecture design and models
Software test design patterns and styles
Quality of software test architecture
Software test engineering methodologies including software test architecture design
Roles and responsibilities of software test architects
Relationship of software architecture and software test architecture
Comparison of software test architecture among domains (e.g. enterprise systems and embedded systems)
Industrial experiments and case studies of software test architecture