Research Track Papers

We invite the submission of high-quality papers in all areas of software testing, verification, and validation. Research papers should present original and significant work that advances the state of the art. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

  • Testing theory and practice
  • Testing in globally-distributed organizations
  • Model-based testing
  • Model-driven engineering and testing
  • Domain specific testing, such as:
    • Mobile app testing
    • Web-service testing
    • Database testing
    • Embedded software testing
    • Testing concurrent software
    • Testing large-scale distributed systems
    • Testing cloud systems
    • Testing real-time systems
    • Testing data-intensive systems
    • Testing in multi-core environments
  • Quality assurance
  • Model checking
  • Formal verification
  • Fuzzing
  • Inspections
  • Testing and analysis tools
  • Design for testability
  • Testing education
  • Technology transfer in testing
  • Agile/iterative/incremental testing processes
  • Testing of open source and third-party software
  • Software reliability
  • Performance and QoS testing
  • Security testing
  • Testing standards and technologies
  • Metrics and Empirical studies
  • Experience reports

Each submission will be reviewed by at least three members of the ICST Program Committee. Authors of the best papers presented at ICST 2017 will be invited to extend their work for possible inclusion in a special issue of International Journal on Software Tools for Technology Transfer, a Springer journal

Format

Research papers must conform to the two-column 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 (i.e., not the Computer Society format).

Papers must be submitted in PDF format and must not exceed 10 pages (+2 pages for references). ICST uses single-blind reviewing, so please include all author names and affiliations.

We invite submission of research and technical papers that describe original and significant work in the research and practice of software testing, verification and validation. Case studies and empirical research papers are also welcome.

Papers must neither have been previously accepted for publication nor be under submission in another conference or journal. The ICST 2017 research track accepts only full research papers. Short papers are not accepted to the research track.

For your paper to be published in the ICST 2017 conference proceedings, at least one of the authors of the paper must register for the conference and confirm that she/he will present the paper in person.

How to submit? Submissions will be handled via EasyChair at http://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icst2017

Important Dates
(old) Submission of full papers: September 23, 2016
(new) Submission of full papers: September 30, 2016 (extended)
(old) Notification of acceptance: November 19, 2016
(new) Notification of acceptance: November 26, 2016 (extended)
(old) Camera ready: December 17, 2016
(new) Camera ready: January 23, 2017 (extended)

Program Committee Chairs

  • Ina Schieferdecker, Fraunhofer FOKUS/TU Berlin, Germany
  • Hironori Washizaki, Waseda University, Japan

Program Committee