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ICST 2016
Testing Tool Demos
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Call For Testing Tool Demos
Goal
The ICST Tools Track seeks to bridge the gap between software testing, verification, and validation practitioners and
researchers with a goal of improving both the stateoftheart and the stateofthepractice. In their submissions,
software tool developers should explain how they deal with the complexity and challenges of transferring research
ideas into practice. At the same time, researchers are welcome to submit papers in which they describe how academic
research helps tool developers apply new approaches to solving complex industry problems. Participants of the Tools
Track will be exposed to different techniques, and they will be connected with potential collaborators. We actively seek
quality nonacademic submissions, so that this track enables leading researchers and practitioners to discuss and solve
important problems.
We invite submissions that include but are not limited to the following areas:
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Transfer of academic approaches into open source or commercial tools and sharing lessons learned from this
transfer;
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Creation of an innovative tool;
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Description of a significant adoption effort of a verification approach with detailed descriptions of the strategies
and challenges of this adoption effort;
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Description of a working prototype of your research technique, any feedback obtained from practitioners and
description of the technical challenges in developing it.
Submissions will be evaluated based on:
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The importance of the addressed problem;
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The relevance and significance of any lessons learned during implementation or deployment;
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The innovation element of the approach;
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The maturity and adoptionlevel of the tool;
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The availability (e.g., is there a URL link where the tool can be downloaded from?)
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The quality of the presentation.
Format
All the submitted papers should conform to the twocolumn IEEE conference publication format. Templates for Latex
and Word are available at http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html; use the
letter format templates and the “conference” option. The paper should be submitted in the PDF format and no more
than 8 pages. All the accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings and the IEEE digital library Accepted
authors will be allotted a 25 minute presentation at the conference, which is expected to include at least 10 minutes
live tool demonstration. As such, submissions are encouraged to include an additional document (pdf or ppt) that
describes the plan for the live demonstration. We emphasize the contributions of tools rather than the novel
algorithmic advances or empirical evaluations. Claims about the effectiveness of tools should be supported by citations
to existing peerreviewed publications. Please note that the Testing Tools track will accept tools at several stages of
maturity, including promising research prototypes, widely used research tools, and commercial tools.
Award
The best submitted paper will be awarded during the conference.
Important Dates
Submissions: January 5, 2016
Notification: January 22nd, 2016
How to submit?
Please send your submissions via https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/ICST2016. The submission site is already open.
Program Committee
Jonathan Bell, Columbia University
James Clause, University of Delaware
Juan P. Galeotti, University of Buenos Aires
Atif Memon, University of Maryland
Gang Shu, Salesforce
Saurabh Sinha, IBM Research
Nikolai Tillmann, Microsoft Research
Willem Visser, Stellenbosch University
Xusheng Xiao, NEC lab
Liu Yang, Nanyang Technological University
Tingting Yu, University of Kentucky
Lingming Zhang, University of Texas at Dallas