The symposium will be a one-day workshop held in conjunction with the IEEE International Conference on Software Testing, Verification, and Validation. The symposium has three goals: (1) to provide constructive feedback and guidance to doctoral students who are performing their dissertation research in the field of software testing, verification, and validation; (2) to develop a supportive community of researchers and potential collaborators; (3) to help students interact with established researchers and practitioners in the field.
The symposium will serve both "early" post-qualifier PhD researchers who have some preliminary results as well as ABDs who have at least another six months before their dissertation defense. Each student will write a short research summary and make a public presentation at the symposium. We expect all students to give a short presentation (not just the ABDs). After the public presentation, the students will receive oral feedback from a panel of researchers and practitioners. The students may also seek advice regarding such things as completion of a PhD, how to perform research in testing, how to design and execute empirical research, etc. Accepted research summaries will be published in the conference proceedings. Upon notification of acceptance, all authors of accepted research summaries will be asked to complete a Copyright form and will receive further instructions for preparing their camera ready versions.
A limited number of travel grants will be available to PhD students. Priority will be based on need and date of submission.
The organizers will apply a screening process based on the research summary and an advisor's recommendation. The following criteria will be considered:
1 A research summary of at most two pages. Your summary must include:
Your research summary must conform to the ICST 2017 Format and Submission Guidelines and must be a maximum of two pages with main text in 10 point font, including all text, references, appendices, and figures. All submissions must be in English.
2 A letter of recommendation. The letter should be from your dissertation advisor and must include:
The letter should be in PDF and should be sent directly to: icst17phd@gmail.com with the subject: "ICST Doctoral Symposium Recommendation".
Please send your research summary submission as an email attachment in PDF to icst17phd@gmail.com with the subject: "ICST Doctoral Symposium Submission".
The submission deadline is January 16, 2017.(extended)Please ensure that your advisor sends the letter of recommendation as an email attachment with the subject "ICST Doctoral Symposium Recommendation" to icst17phd@gmail.com.
Presentations will be 15 minutes and limited to 12 slides. The time limit will be strictly enforced. Student presentations will be followed by 15 minutes of feedback from four panelists. Student advisors will be asked to leave the room during their student's presentation. The audience will be asked to hold questions until the end of each session.