SQ: 2011 - Second International Workshop on Software Quality

Second International Workshop on Software Quality (SQ: 2011) in conjunction with ICCSA 2011

http://www.futminna.edu.ng/smisra/SQ2011

(The accepted papers of SQ 2011 will be published in Lecturer Notes in Computer Science)

Following the success of SQ 2009 in ISCIS 2009 ( in Middle East Technical University North Cyprus Campus, Cyprus,) the Second International Workshop on “Software Quality SQ” (SQ 2011) will be held in conjunction with The 2011 International Conference on Computational Science and Applications (ICCSA 2011) during June 20-23, 2011, at University of Catabria, Santander, Spain.

Submission deadline: December 31, 2010

About The Workshop and Topics

This workshop extends discussion of software quality issues in the modern software development processes. It covers all the aspects of process and product quality, quality assurance and standards, quality planning, quality control and software quality challenges. It also covers the frontier issues and trends for achieving the quality objectives. It includes quality management process, role of software metrics, predictor metrics and control metrics, role of measurement in accessing the quality and limitations.

Topics include (related to quality issues) but not limited to:

1. Software development fundamentals,

2. Extreme Programming (XP), Agile, Scrum,

3. Software requirements techniques,

4. Software testing & QA fundamentals,

5. Software testing models and approaches,

6. Software testing tools and frameworks,

7. Software test design,

8. Types of software maintenance,

9. Software maintenance process models,

10. Software maintenance standards,

11. Software maintenance tools

12. Software Reviews (SR)

13. Software Metrics (SM)

14. Software Process Assessment (SPA)

15. Software Process Improvement (SPI)

16. Software Standardization and Certification

SQ: 2011 invites you to submit your work that describes original and significant contribution in all above mentioned area of software engineering processes. The paper submitted to SQ’2011 must not be submitted elsewhere either in conference or journal. Papers selected after peer review will be included in the conference proceedings and presented orally at the conference.

Publication

All contributions will be peer reviewed and will be judged on their quality and relevance. The accepted papers for SQ 2011 will be published in Proceedings of ICCSA by Springer in Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Please note that one of the author’s of the accepted paper must register for the conference and should present the paper in conference. The selected, extended and modified version of accepted paper will also be invited for the publication in a reputed International Journal.

Submission

Please submit your paper through ICCSA 2011 conference web-site.

Submission Site: http://ess.iccsa.org/

While, submitting to conference site, please select the track of your submission “Software Quality (SQ: 2011)”.

Important Dates
Submission of papers: December 31, 2010
Notification of acceptance: March 2, 2011
Camera ready and registration due: April 4, 2011.
Workshop date: 1 day between 20-23 June , 2011(Exact day will be announced later)

Program Chair

Prof Sanjay Misra
Chair, Department of Computer Engineering
School of Information and Communication Technology
Federal University of Technology, Minna Nigeria
Contact: smisra-AT-futminna.edu.ng

Program Committee Members

Ibhrahim Akman

Murat Koyuncu

Atilim University

Reda Alhajj

University Of Calgary

Canada.

R. Kars Brouwer

Thompson Rivers University

CANADA

Tolga Pusatli

Atilim University

Turkey

Pino Caballero

University of La Laguna

Canary Islands

P. Debba

Senior Statistical Researcher CSIR Built Environment

South Africa

Atilla Boston

Atilim University

Turkey

Erol Ozcelik

Atilim University

Turkey

Candelaria Hernandez

University of La Laguna

Canary Islands

Markus Holopainen

University of Helsinki

Finland

Andrés Iglesias

University of Cantabria, Santander

SPAIN

Ruchi Shukla

MLN National Institute of Technology

India

Wei-Ho Tsai

National Taipei University of Technology

Taiwan

Zeeshan Ahmed

University of Wuerzburg

Germany

Mikolaj Morzy

Poznan University of Technology

POLAND

Robert Luk

The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Hong Kong

Ozcan Ozturk

The Pennsylvania State University

USA

L.C. Rivero

Universidad Nacional del Centro

Argentina

A. Fuster-Sabater

Institute of Applied Physics (C.S.I.C.)

SPAIN

Ajaykumar Sachan

Rajivee Gandhi Technical University

India

Kyriakos Sgarbas

University of Patras

Greece

J. M. Sierra

University Carlos III

SPAIN

Ahmed Patel

Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia

Malaysia

Andrea Taramelli

LDEO of Columbia University, NY

USA

Luciano Telesca

Istituto di Metodologie per lÂ’Analisi Ambientale

Italy