RELENG 2013 - International Workshop on Release Engineering (RELENG)

International Workshop on Release
Engineering 2013
Release engineering deals with all activities in between regular development and delivery of a software product to the end user, i.e., integration, build, test execution, packaging and delivery of software. Although research on this topic goes back for decades, the increasing heterogeneity and variability of software products along with the recent trend to reduce the release cycle to days or even hours starts to question some of the common beliefs and practices of the field.
RELENG 2013 is a full-day workshop that aims to provide a highly interactive forum for researchers and practitioners to interact and address the challenges of, find solutions for and share experiences with release engineering, and to build connections between the various communities. The workshop will consist of a keynote, practitioner talks, paper presentations, working groups and a fishbowl panel for semi-structured group discussions. The keynote, presented by X, a release engineer for Y will set the stage for the rest of the workshop, introducing the challenges of modern companies related to release engineering.
In an effort to engage with practitioners, one of the co-organizers is a release engineer at Mozilla and one third of the PC consists of release engineers, so we guarantee that each paper or abstract submission receives at least one review from a practitioner.
Topics for papers and talks include but are not limited to:
best practices for code movement (branching and integration)
continuous integration and deployment
build and configuration of software
build system maintenance
testing and reporting infrastructures
continuous testing
package management
legal signoff and bill-of-materials
delivery and deployment of software
cloud provisioning and management
software installers and update systems
interaction with app stores
principles and automated techniques for release planning
management and monitoring of a software release
release engineering for product lines
devops and interaction with other project members
Technical Papers (4 pages) should identify challenges, discuss opposing viewpoints, outline processes, or present solutions related to various aspects of release engineering. These papers will be published in an open access journal.
Talk Abstracts (1 page) are only open to practitioners and should describe in 500 words or less, a talk on a key aspect of release engineering. These talks should be primarily experience based and should be used as a means of communicating challenges that are in need of research.
Submissions should follow ICSE formatting guidelines (http://2013.icse-conferences.org/content/submissio...) and should be submitted through easychair (https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=releng...).
Accepted papers and talks will have between 10 and 15 minutes for presentation at the workshop, followed by discussion.