TSE-TH 2013 - The Symposium on Engineering Test Harness 2013

Program testing could not be conducted without tangible testing artifacts, and these artifacts should be usable by programmers so that program testing could be meaningfully conducted. At the heart of this dependency chain is the test harness. Test harness is a collection of tightly coupled artifacts, including concrete test data composition, realization of test execution strategies, test result verification, framework extension, and test visualization and management. Engineering effective test harness should address the challenges in handling multiple types of artifacts and their interaction.
The best papers presented in the Symposium will be invited for journal extension at a special issue of an international leading journal in software engineering.
The Symposium on Engineering Test Harness (TSE-TH 2013) aims to bring researchers, practitioners, and research students together to present results and exchange ideas about the integration of theory and practice as well as the integration of formal and informal methods toward engineering effective test harness.
A special theme of the symposium is to celebrate the retirement of Prof T.H. Tse. This symposium solicits research results and experience reports that make tributes to the academic contribution of Prof T.H. Tse in the area of software testing.
Each submission may contain up to 7 pages for a regular contribution, 4 pages for a concise contribution, or 2 pages for a position statement. Each submission should be formatted according to the IEEE CS proceedings format (US letter size). Templates can be downloaded from the IEEE Computer Society Press (http://www.computer.org/portal/web/cscps/submissio...). Papers not following the submission guidelines may be desk rejected without review.
Each submission will be reviewed based on the relevance to the theme of the workshop, correctness, originality, novelty, evaluation, related work, and presentation. All submissions will be subject to a process of rigorous peer review. The acceptance decision will be made by the program committee as a whole. Accepted papers will be published in the Proceedings of QSIC 2013 or Proceedings of QSIC Workshops 2013 by the IEEE Computer Society. Each accepted paper must be presented by one of its co-authors.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
Formulation of test adequacy in test harness
Formulation of test data generation, selection, and prioritization in test harness
Formulation of test oracles in test harness
Generation of test harness
Dynamic execution mechanisms for test harness
Extensible and scalable infrastructure for test harness
Integration and interactions of components in test harness
Interactions between test harness and programs under test
Test harness in integrated development environment
Management and process of test harness
Reporting of test harness progress and results
Visualization of testing activities conducted by test harness
Specification and design of artifacts in test harness
Usability of test harness
Automation of test harness
Test harness driven debugging
Test harness driven maintenance
Human and social aspects of test harness
Interoperability and standardization of test harness
Empirical study on the above topics
Literature survey on the above topics
Important Dates
Submission Due: 3 March 2013
Paper Notification: 5 May 2013
Symposium Date: 29-30 July 2013
Websites
Symposium homepage: https://sites.google.com/a/gapps.cityu.edu.hk/tset...
Paper submission at EasyChair: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=tseth2...
WikiCFP: http://www.wikicfp.com/cfp/servlet/event.showcfp?e...
Organization
Symposium Program Chairs
W.K. Chan, City University of Hong Kong
S.C. Cheung, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Program Committee Members
Rui Abreu, University of Porto, Portugal
William Chu, TungHai University, Taiwan
Bo Jiang, Beiheng University, China
Gordon Fraser, University of Sheffield, UK
Yu Lei, University of Texas at Arlington, USA
Fei-Ching Kuo, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia
Dianxiang Xu, Dakota State University, USA
Chunyang Ye, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Yuen Tak Yu, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Zheng Zheng, Beiheng University, China
Zhiquan Zhou, University of Wollongong, Australia
Hong Zhu, Oxford Brookes University, UK
(The above list is incomplete)
Enquiries
All enquiries should be directed to wkchan-AT-cityu.edu.hk .