MCTaaS 2015 - First International Workshop on Mobile Cloud TaaS

In the recent years，we have seen the emerge of increasingly mobile applications due to the use of mobile devices and sensors. This imposes grave challenges to mobile engineers to ensure the quality of mobile testing due to the high costs and complexity for mobile testing. For example, these mobile applications are expected to run on diverse devices, platforms and mobile browsers. Today, cloud and mobile computing technologies offer new opportunities for providing cloud and mobile testing-as-a-service (TaaS). It is expected that revenue from mobile application testing tools will rise from $200 million in 2012 to $800 million by 2017 (ABI research). As a result, mobile cloud TaaS have been an active research area in the past years. This workshop is intended to provide a new platform for researchers and practitioners to exchange new ideas and share state-of-the-art research results and solutions in mobile cloud testing and TaaS.
We invite original submissions in mobile testing, cloud testing and mobile TaaS. The topics include, but are not limited to the following:
Testing mobile applications, SaaS, Web services
Testing Big Data applications
Testing Internet-of-Things and sensor-based applications
Testing location-based, context aware and mobile applications
Usability testing and verification
Security testing and verification
Platform and browser compatibility testing, and verification
Reliability and Quality of service testing
Cloud-based testing automation frameworks, environments, platforms, tools and test services
Mechanisms and solution to support mobile cloud testing as a service
Theory, methodology, technology and process models underlying mobile cloud testing as a service
Social, economical, legal, and professional issues of TaaS and testing mobile cloud applications
Case studies, experiences, practice reports and lessons learned
Test adequacy criteria and coverage
Test data generation, selection and prioritization
Regression testing and the evolution of mobile cloud applications
QoS management, measurement, metrics and evaluation
Submission
Prospective authors are invited to submit manuscripts reporting original unpublished work and not submitted to anywhere else for consideration of publication on the topics related to the workshop. Papers must follow the IEEE double-column format(https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ieeebigdat...), and should not exceed 6 pages (standard extra page policy). At least one of the authors of an accepted paper must be registered and present his/her paper at the workshop.
All papers must be submitted electronically by the EasyChair system:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mctaas2015
Important Dates
Paper submission deadline: December 15th, 2014
Notification: January, 15th, 2015
Camera-ready due: January 31st, 2015
Workshop: March 30th, 2015
Organization
Workshop Chairs
Rajesh Subramanyan, Siemens, USA
Hong Zhu, Oxford Brookes University, UK
Program Chairs
Oum-El-Kheir Aktouf, Grenoble INP, France
Tao Zhang, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China
Steering Committee
Oum-El-Kheir Aktouf, Grenoble INP, France
Xiaoying Bai, Tsinghua University, China
Jerry Gao, San Jose State University, USA
W.T. Tsai, Arizona State University, USA
Tao Zhang, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China
Hong Zhu, Oxford Brookes University, UK
Contact
Oum-El-Kheir Aktouf (Oum-El-Kheir.Aktouf-AT-grenoble-inp.fr)
Tao Zhang (zhangtao.fufeng-AT-gmail.com)
PC member
Mohamed Ashmawy Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia
Xiaoying Bai Tsinghua University, China
Fevzi Belli Paderborn University, Germany
Guglielmo De Angelis ISTI, Italy
Tariq King Ultimate Software, USA
Bixin Li Southeast University, China
Jose Miguel-Alonso University of the Basque Country, Spain
Henry Muccini University of L'Aquila, Italy
Ioannis Parissis Grenoble INP, France
Andrea Polini University of Camerino, Italy
Leah Riungu-Kalliosaari Lappeenranta University of Technology, Finland
Benedict Shajulin St.Xavier's Catholic College of Engineering Chunkankadai, Nagercoil Kanyakumari District, Tamilnadu, India
Chuanqi Tao Nanjing University of Computer Science and Engineering, Nanjing, China
Sergiy Vilkomir Department of Computer Science, East Carolina University, USA
Dianxiang Xu Boise State University, USA
Zhenyu Zhang Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China