SCENARIOS 2011 - 1st international workshop on Scenario-Based Testing - SCENARIOS 2011

Nowadays, more and more techniques rely on human intervention so as to ensure the applicability of testing approaches. Indeed, a trade-off has to be found between the relevance of the test cases (requiring strong human intervention) and automation. Scenario-Based Testing addresses this issue by looking for more automation, with human intervention restricted to insightful activities. Over the years, different scenario based testing techniques have been developed to assist the validation engineer, using textual scenarios such as regular expressions, graphical notations such as UML interaction diagrams or test purposes specified as transitions systems. All these techniques represent an efficient solution to the state space explosion problem by restricting the possible executions of the system to a limited, and hopefully more accurate, subset of admissible traces. In addition, they make it possible to capture the human expertise for testing specific situations that can not be targeted by a systematic model coverage approach.

This first edition of the workshop on Scenario-Based Testing aims at gathering ideas and techniques in the area of semi-automated testing. It is intended to assess the effectiveness of available techniques and promote original research ideas that can be concretized into an industrial context.

The topics of interest of the workshop cover, but are not limited to:

Languages and formalisms to design scenarios,
Techniques and tools to automate scenario-based test generation,
Applications of scenario-based testing, such as: security testing, web services testing, database testing, object-oriented software testing, embedded systems testing, etc.
Integration of Scenario-Based Testing with other testing techniques
Empirical studies
Scenarios and software evolutions
Application to industry
Important dates

Paper submission: December 22nd, 2010
Notification: January 21st, 2011
Camera-ready version: February 15th, 2011
Workshop: March, 2011
Organization

Workshop chairs:

Frédéric Dadeau, University of Franche-Comté, France
Lydie du Bousquet, Grenoble Universities, France
Program committee:
Bernhard K. Aichernig, TU Graz, Austria
Dave Arnold, Carleton University, Canada
Michael Felderer, University of Innsbruck, Austria
Wolfgang Grieskamp, Microsoft Redmond, WA, USA
Yves Ledru, Grenoble Universities, France
Bruno Legeard, Smartesting, France
Levi Lucio, University of Luxembourg
Eda Marchetti, University of Pisa, Italy
Manoranjan Satpathy, General Motors, India
Fatiha Zaidi, LRI Orsay, France
(to be completed)
Submissions

Submission are made via the Easychair website.

Authors are invited to submit original contributions of no more than 10 pages using the two-column IEEE format, presenting new ideas, new results or new systems in scenario-based testing. Papers should not be published or submitted elsewhere during the time of evaluation. Accepted papers will be published by the IEEE Computer Society.

The proceedings will be published by the IEEE Computer Society. Therefore, all papers and other materials for the proceedings must be typeset to conform to IEEE conference style guidelines using the two-colum format.

For instructions on preparing papers in accordance with the IEEE two-column proceedings format, see Author Guidelines for 8.5x11-inch Proceedings Manuscript. Please use the MS Word templates and LaTeX formats to prepare papers.